Animating Speech in Games

King, Scott A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89220-5_23

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“…For a survey of techniques suitable for games, see [King 2008]. In particular, approaches for animating gaze and eyes tend to be probabilistic, corresponding to either parameterized models (usually constructed from empirical data, such as [Lee et al 2002;Itti et al 2003;Masuko and Hoshino 2007]) or models constructed automatically using statistical learning techniques, such as [Deng et al 2005;Ma and Deng 2009;Le et al 2012].…”

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Evaluating perceived trust from procedurally animated gaze

Normoyle

Badler

Fan

et al. 2013

Proceedings of Motion on Games

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Adventure role playing games (RPGs) provide players with increasingly expansive worlds, compelling storylines, and meaningful fictional character interactions. Despite the fast-growing richness of these worlds, the majority of interactions between the player and non-player characters (NPCs) still remain scripted. In this paper we propose using an NPC's animations to reflect how they feel towards the player and as a proof of concept, investigate the potential for a straightforward gaze model to convey trust. Through two perceptual experiments, we find that viewers can distinguish between high and low trust animations, that viewers associate the gaze differences specifically with trust and not with an unrelated attitude (aggression), and that the effect can hold for different facial expressions and scene contexts, even when viewed by participants for a short (five second) clip length. With an additional experiment, we explore the extent that trust is uniquely conveyed over other attitudes associated with gaze, such as interest, unfriendliness, and admiration. AbstractAdventure role playing games (RPGs) provide players with increasingly expansive worlds, compelling storylines, and meaningful fictional character interactions. Despite the fast-growing richness of these worlds, the majority of interactions between the player and non-player characters (NPCs) still remain scripted. In this paper we propose using an NPC's animations to reflect how they feel towards the player and as a proof of concept, investigate the potential for a straightforward gaze model to convey trust. Through two perceptual experiments, we find that viewers can distinguish between high and low trust animations, that viewers associate the gaze differences specifically with trust and not with an unrelated attitude (aggression), and that the effect can hold for different facial expressions and scene contexts, even when viewed by participants for a short (five second) clip length. With an additional experiment, we explore the extent that trust is uniquely conveyed over other attitudes associated with gaze, such as interest, unfriendliness, and admiration.

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