Imitation as a first step to social learning in synthetic characters: A graph-based approach

Computer Animation, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 9-18

  Buchsbaum, D ^a   Blumberg, B ^b  

^a ICOSYSTEM CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION SYSTEMS; ANIMATED CHARACTERS; BEHAVIOR REPRESENTATION; GRAPH-BASED; INNATE STRUCTURE; MOTION GRAPH; MOVEMENT RECOGNITION; SIMULATION THEORY; SOCIAL LEARNING; SYNTHETIC CHARACTER; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

ANIMATION; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79951630425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1073368.1073370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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