Lifelike gesture synthesis and timing for conversational agents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2298, Issue , 2002, Pages 120-133

  Wachsmuth, Ipke ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); TIMING CIRCUITS; USER INTERFACES;

ARTICULATED FIGURES; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; KINEMATIC SKELETON; MOTION REPRESENTATION; OPERATIONAL MODEL; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84942595975     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47873-6_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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