The virtual human interface: A photorealistic digital human

Takács, Barnabás; Kiss, Bernadette

doi:10.1109/mcg.2003.1231176

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“…In recent years, there has been a growing interest in making animated characters depicted in film and online games (see Kerlow 2004) and human-computer interaction (see Blascovich 2001;Dehn and van Mulken 2000) more human-like, with photorealistic faces (Takács and Kiss 2003). A goal in computer graphics is to develop these computergenerated humans in such a way that they are capable of expressing fine shades of emotions.…”

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Effects of Dynamic Attributes of Smiles in Human and Synthetic Faces: A Simulated Job Interview Setting

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We examined the effects of the temporal quality of smile displays on impressions and decisions made in a simulated job interview. We also investigated whether similar judgments were made in response to synthetic (Study 1) and human facial stimuli (Study 2). Participants viewed short video excerpts of female interviewees exhibiting dynamic authentic smiles, dynamic fake smiles, or neutral expressions, and rated them with respect to a number of attributes. In both studies, perceivers' judgments and employment decisions were significantly shaped by the temporal quality of smiles, with dynamic authentic smiles generally leading to more favorable job, person, and expression ratings than dynamic fake smiles or neutral expressions. Furthermore, authentically smiling interviewees were judged to be more suitable and were more likely to be short-listed and selected for the job. The findings show a high degree of correspondence in the effects created by synthetic and human facial stimuli, suggesting that temporal features of smiles similarly influence perceivers' judgments and decisions across the two types of stimulus.

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Effects of Dynamic Attributes of Smiles in Human and Synthetic Faces: A Simulated Job Interview Setting

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“…To imitate everyday human communication, computer interfaces may combine the benefits of high visual fidelity with conversational intelligence and the ability to correctly understand users' emotions (Takács and Kiss 2003). On the part of computer graphics, achieving such goals requires synthesizing digital humans characterized by photorealistic faces, capable of expressing emotions in the best possible way.…”

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Human–Computer input and output techniques: an analysis of current research and promising applications

Porta

2007

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Personal computing applications are constantly increasing their potential power, thanks to steadily growing hardware capabilities and large diffusion of high-quality multimedia output devices. At the same time, mobile communication tools are becoming an integral part of our everyday life, with new advanced functionalities offered at an unrestrainable pace. Although the way we interact with information machines is substantially the same since 20 years-based on keyboard, mouse and window metaphor-other communication modalities are possible, and shortly may become popular as additional interaction methods. Given the paramount importance of the "interface" in present computer applications, no alternative should be ignored, as it could greatly improve the quality of both interaction processes and user cognitive performance. Without pretending to foresee the future, in this paper we provide an overview of the main current technologies which can enable potential novel interfaces, discussing their features, strengths, weaknesses and promising applications.

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“…Several popular models of CG human interaction present conflicting predictions for the effects of CG human realism [Paouri et al 1991] [Sakamoto et al 1997] [MacDorman 2009]. In addition, most attempts to improve the perception of CG humans have mainly focused on the design of the CG human"s appearance (Visual Realism), even though the dynamics of a CG human (Accurate Behaviour) has a potential influence [Creed 2002] [Takács et al 2003] [Chaffin 2005]. Furthermore, the influence of facial behaviour on audience perception has received little attention.…”

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Accurate behaviour and believability of computer generated images of human head

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Eglin

2011

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry

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Preserving the integrity of realistic animated Computer Generated (CG) Humans is tantamount to ensuring audience perception and believability. However, projecting accurate behaviour in CG humans remains a potential problem. The effects of facial behaviour display (Facial Expression, Head Movement and Eye Movement) in terms of audience perception (Believability, Eeriness and Accurate Behaviour recognition) were tested utilising a CG animated human head.The results of the study show areas of significance were recorded in the effect of CG human facial behaviour in participants" perception in response to three dependant measures. The most significant, eeriness, was caused by a category of facial movement whilst the inclusion of that facial expression and head movement created most believability. The accuracy of identifying behaviour was also increased by the inclusion of Head Movement. However, no significant effect was found for eye movement.

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The virtual human interface: A photorealistic digital human

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 publications

Effects of Dynamic Attributes of Smiles in Human and Synthetic Faces: A Simulated Job Interview Setting

Effects of Dynamic Attributes of Smiles in Human and Synthetic Faces: A Simulated Job Interview Setting

Human–Computer input and output techniques: an analysis of current research and promising applications

Accurate behaviour and believability of computer generated images of human head

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