New Advances in Virtual Humans

Download or read book New Advances in Virtual Humans written by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, various aspects of cognitive and emotional behaviour is described. In chapter one, a state of the art introduction to VH is presented and the associated research is given. In Chapter 2, cognitive and emotions processes are described. A Comprehensive context model for multi-party interactions with the VH is given in the next chapter. Finally, it is very important to model the socializing of groups of virtual humans. This is discussed in Chapter 4. The automatic modelling of expressions for VH is described in Chapter 5. The last chapter gives a case study of an intelligent kios avatar and its usability. This book gives examples of some advances that enable VH to behave intelligently. It provides an overview of these research problems and some unsolved problems.