SmartBody: Behavior realization for embodied conversational agents

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 150-157

  Thiebaux, Marcus ^a   Marsella, Stacy ^a   Marshall, Andrew N ^a   Kallmann, Marcelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Character animation; Conversational characters; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMATION ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER ANIMATION; CONVERSATIONAL CHARACTERS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; PROCEDURAL ANIMATION; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84899965042     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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