Conceptual design scheme for virtual characters

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 33 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 135-150

  Brunetti, Gino ^a   Servidio, Rocco ^b  

^a INI GraphicsNet Stiftung   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial behavior; Cognitive modelling; Emotions; Gestures; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE MODELLING; EMOTIONS; GESTURES; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84885887287     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11743-5_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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