Where computers disappear, virtual humans appear

Nijholt, Anton

doi:10.1016/j.cag.2004.04.002

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“…There is a lot of research that is extremely important, but is not discussed here and not part of the project. We would like to mention privacy issues, presence issues and issues related to the fact that people know that their actions are recorded and interpreted (Nijholt 2004). Presence issues in a meeting environment have been researched (Pertaub et al 2001).…”

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“…Some of these issues we discussed earlier, for instance in the context of interactive performances where human performers have to interact with objects and virtual performers in a virtual environment (Nijholt 2000), in the context of social-embodied agents (Nijholt 2003) or in the context of presence, alienation and privacy Nijholt 2004). However, in particular our involvement in two European projects on meeting environments (M4 in the 5th framework and AMI in the 6th framework) has been fruitful in developing these ideas further.…”

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Meetings and meeting modeling in smart environments

2005

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In this paper we survey our research on smart meeting rooms and its relevance for augmented reality meeting support and virtual reality generation of meetings in real time or off-line. The research reported here forms part of the European 5th and 6th framework programme projects multi-modal meeting manager (M4) and augmented multi-party interaction (AMI). Both projects aim at building a smart meeting environment that is able to collect multimodal captures of the activities and discussions in a meeting room, with the aim to use this information as input to tools that allow real-time support, browsing, retrieval and summarization of meetings. Our aim is to research (semantic) representations of what takes place during meetings in order to allow generation, e.g. in virtual reality, of meeting activities (discussions, presentations, voting, etc.). Being able to do so also allows us to look at tools that provide support during a meeting and at tools that allow those not able to be physically present during a meeting to take part in a virtual way. This may lead to situations where the differences between real meeting participants, human-controlled virtual participants and (semi-) autonomous virtual participants disappear.

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Meetings and meeting modeling in smart environments

2005

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“…In addition to facial animation that is commonly used in character animation, body gesture is also important for emotion expression. Diederiks [7] repositioned the role of animated character in a smart environment and pointed out that nonverbal expression should be better utilized in addition to verbal expression when designing a virtual agent for user interface.…”

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

Chen

Huang

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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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“…Virtual simulation using avatars is another current topic at the University of Twente [11,12]. One type of virtual simulation may involve virtual replay of a meeting from specific viewpoints such as the viewing perspective of one participant.…”

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Meeting Modelling in the Context of Multimodal Research

Reidsma

Rienks

Jovanović

2005

Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction

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Abstract. This paper presents a framework for corpus based multimodal research. Part of this framework is applied in the context of meeting modelling. A generic model for different aspects of meetings is discussed. This model leads to a layered description of meetings where each layer adds a level of interpretation for distinct aspects based on information provided by lower layers. This model should provide a starting point for selecting annotation schemes for layers of the meeting and for defining a hierarchy between individual layers.

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Where computers disappear, virtual humans appear

Cited by 33 publications

References 14 publications

Meetings and meeting modeling in smart environments

Meetings and meeting modeling in smart environments

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

Meeting Modelling in the Context of Multimodal Research

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