Design of a virtual human presenter

Noma, Tsukasa; Zhao, Linda; Badler, Norman I.

doi:10.1109/38.851755

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“…), and some presentation agents have been developed for multimodal presentations [2,4,8,9], there are still few systems able to control primary media objects and character agents together with time-control function. DWML is suitable for creating dynamic web pages in which an animated character plays a main role and other multimedia objects such as audio, video and text are synchronized with the behavior of the characters.…”

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Dynamic web markup language (DWML) for generating animated web pages with character agent and time-control function

Ishizuka

2001

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2001. ICME 2001.

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Rapid growth of competition on the electronic market place calls for innovative communication modes with web users. Considering the emergence of dynamic media objects containing temporal infromation such as animated character agents, web page scripts nowadays cannot satisfy users' increasing requirements well. We will develop a Dynamic Web Markup Language (DWML) as a software platform for authoring animated web pages with character agents. We assume that both primary media objects (text, image, etc.) and animated characters can be dynamic objects carrying time-based information, and that a character agent is a special dynamic medium as part of a multimedia interface. DWML, having a distributed structure and timeline ow, is used to generate both dynamic and static media objects, as well as characters' verbal and non-verbal behaviors.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic web markup language (DWML) for generating animated web pages with character agent and time-control function

Ishizuka

2001

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2001. ICME 2001.

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“…For example, the authors in [8] developed a system taking textual contents and gesture commands for a speech to generate corresponding animations and synchronized voice for a virtual weather forecast reporter. Thalmann and Kalra [5] have also designed a virtual actor for TV program.…”

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Using Intelligent 3D Animated Character as the Interface for Interactive Digital TV System

Chen

Huang

et al. 2011

Edutainment Technologies. Educational Games and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Applications

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Abstract. In this research, we propose to incorporate intelligent 3D character into interface design to enhance the user experience on the interactive digital TV system. Based on the smart interactive digital TV system, call SITV, developed in our previous work, we consider several interactive scenarios in the design of the intelligent 3D animated character. We propose to design our intelligent 3D character with the concepts of mobility and expressiveness on body motion such that appropriate emotions can be presented according to TV watching scenarios and character configurations. We have designed experiments to evaluate different types of user interface design for various scenarios. We have found that although the interface with animated character can attract the attention of the user and enhance interactivity, the text-based dialog box interface is still the easiest to understand. We also have found that when the freshness of the new interface with animated character decays after some time of use, it is crucial for an animated character to have expressive motions.

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“…Noma and Badler [20] created a virtual human-like weather reporter. Thalmann and Kalra [24] produced some animation sequences for a virtual character acting as a television presenter.…”

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Presenting through performing: on the use of multiple lifelike characters in knowledge-based presentation systems

André

Rist

2001

Knowledge-Based Systems

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In this paper, we investigate a new style for presenting information. We introduce the notion of presentation teams which -rather than addressing the user directly -convey information in the style of performances to be observed by him or her. The paper presents an approach to the automated generation of performances which has been tested in two different application scenarios, car sales dialogues and soccer commentary.

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Design of a virtual human presenter

Cited by 105 publications

References 15 publications

Dynamic web markup language (DWML) for generating animated web pages with character agent and time-control function

Dynamic web markup language (DWML) for generating animated web pages with character agent and time-control function

Using Intelligent 3D Animated Character as the Interface for Interactive Digital TV System

Presenting through performing: on the use of multiple lifelike characters in knowledge-based presentation systems

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