Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction

Author: Lola Cañamero

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9027252106

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Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given emotional displays that are believable and acceptable to humans? This is the central question of Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. The ability to express and recognize emotions is a fundamental aspect of social interaction. Not only is it a central research question, it has been explored in animated films, dance, and other expressive arts for a much longer period. This book is unique in presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to animation in its broadest sense: from internal mechanisms to external displays, not only from a graphical perspective, but more generally examining how to give characters an “anima”, so that they appear as life-like entities and social partners to humans. (Series B)

Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction

Author: Lola Cañamero

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008-11-27

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9027289832

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Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given emotional displays that are believable and acceptable to humans? This is the central question of Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. The ability to express and recognize emotions is a fundamental aspect of social interaction. Not only is it a central research question, it has been explored in animated films, dance, and other expressive arts for a much longer period. This book is unique in presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to animation in its broadest sense: from internal mechanisms to external displays, not only from a graphical perspective, but more generally examining how to give characters an “anima”, so that they appear as life-like entities and social partners to humans. (Series B)

Social Robotics
Social Robotics

Author: Shuzhi Sam Ge

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-04

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 3642341039

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2012. The 66 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots, situated interaction and embodiment, robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities, social acceptance of robots and their impact to the society, artificial empathy, HRI through non-verbal communication and control, social telepresence robots, embodiments and networks, interaction and collaboration among robots, humans and environment, human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots I and II.

Intelligent Information Access
Intelligent Information Access

Author: Giuliano Armano

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-06-23

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 364213999X

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Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, Intelligent Information Access investigates new insights into methods, techniques and technologies for intelligent information access. The chapters are written by participants in the Intelligent Information Access meeting, held in Cagliari, Italy, in December 2008.

Intelligent Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents

Author: Timothy Bickmore

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 3319097679

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2014, held in Boston, MA, USA, in August 2014. The 14 full and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. In addition, the volume includes 25 demo and poster papers which were on display during the conference. The papers cover many aspects of intelligent virtual agent theory and application with a special focus on their use in healthcare.

PRICAI 2002: Trends in Artificial Intelligence
PRICAI 2002: Trends in Artificial Intelligence

Author: Mitsuru Ishizuka

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002-08-07

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 3540440380

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2002, held in Tokyo, Japan in August 2002. The 57 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited contributions and 26 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logic and AI foundations, representation and reasoning of actions, constraint satisfaction, foundations of agents, foundations of learning, reinforcement learning, knowledge acquisition and management, data mining and knowledge discovery, neural network learning, learning for robots, multi-agent applications, document analysis, Web intelligence, bioinformatics, intelligent learning environments, face recognition, and multimedia and emotion.

Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometric Issue
Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometric Issue

Author: A. Esposito

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2007-05-22

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1607502372

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The main theme of this publication is the fundamental features of verbal and nonverbal communication and their relationships with the identification of a person, his/her socio-cultural background and personal traits. The problem of understanding human behaviour in terms of personal traits, and the possibility of an algorithmic implementation that exploits personal traits to identify a person unambiguously, are among the great challenges of modern science and technology. On the one hand, there is the theoretical question of what makes each individual unique among all others that share similar traits, and what makes a culture unique among various cultures. On the other hand, there is the technological need to be able to protect people from individual disturbance and dangerous behaviour that could damage an entire community. As regards to the problem of understanding human behaviour, one of the most interesting research areas is that related to human interaction and face-to-face communication. It is in this context that knowledge is shared and personal traits acquire their significance.

From Communication to Presence
From Communication to Presence

Author: Luigi Anolli

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781586036621

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Communication is the core activity for an educator, conveying and sharing information from one person to another, from one organization to another. This work includes contributions which encompass a series of topics in communication psychology.

Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment

Author: Mark Maybury

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-11-24

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 3540305092

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2005 held in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy in November/December 2005. Among the intelligent computational technologies covered are adaptive media presentations, recommendation systems in media scalable crossmedia, affective user interfaces, intelligent speech interfaces, tele-presence in entertainment, collaborative user models and group behavior, collaborative and virtual environments, cross domain user models, animation and virtual characters, holographic interfaces, augmented, virtual and mixed reality, computer graphics and multimedia, pervasive multimedia, creative language environments, computational humour, etc. The 21 revised full papers and 15 short papers presented together with 12 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 39 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including intelligent interactive games, intelligent music systems, interactive cinema, edutainment, interactive art, interactive museum guides, city and tourism explorers assistants, shopping assistants, interactive real TV, interactive social networks, interactive storytelling, personal diaries, websites and blogs, and comprehensive assisting environments for special populations (impaired, children, elderly).

Mediated Interpersonal Communication
Mediated Interpersonal Communication

Author: Elly A. Konijn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1135592640

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Mediated interpersonal communication is one of the most dynamic areas in communication studies, reflecting how individuals utilize technology more and more often in their personal interactions. Organizations also rely increasingly on mediated interaction for their communications. Responding to this evolution in communication, this collection explores how existing and new personal communication technologies facilitate and change interpersonal interactions. Chapters offer in-depth examinations of mediated interpersonal communication in various contexts and applications. Contributions come from well-known scholars based around the world, reflecting the strong international interest and work in the area.