Life-Like Characters

Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications

By: Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

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Hardcover | 24 November 2003

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Life-like characters is one of the most exciting technologies for human-computer interface applications today. They convincingly take the roles of virtual presenters, synthetic actors and sales personas, teammates and tutors. A common characteristic underlying their life-likeness or believability as virtual conversational partners is computational models that provide them with affective functions such as synthetic emotions and personalities and implement human interactive behavior. The wide dissemination of life-like characters in multimedia systems, however, will greatly depend on the availability of control languages and tools that facilitate scripting of intelligent conversational behaviour. This book presents the first comprehensive collection of the latest developments in scripting and representation languages for life-like characters, rounded off with an in-depth comparison and synopsis of the major approaches. Introducing toolkits for authoring animated characters further supports the ease of use of this new interface technology.

Life-like characters being a vibrant research area, various applications have been designed and implemented. This book offers coverage of the most successful and promising applications, ranging from product presentation and student training to knowledge integration and interactive gaming. It also discusses the key challenges in the area and provides design guidelines for employing life-like characters.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Graphical & Digital Media Applications Digital Animation Human-Computer Interaction User Interface Design & Usability Operating Systems

Introducing the Cast for Social Computing: Life-Like Characters	p. 3
Representing and Parameterizing Agent Behaviors	p. 19
Toward a Unified Scripting Language: Lessons Learned from Developing CML and AML	p. 39
APML, a Markup Language for Believable Behavior Generation	p. 65
STEP: a Scripting Language for Embodied Agents	p. 87
gUI: Specifying Complete User Interaction	p. 111
A Behavior Language: Joint Action and Behavioral Idioms	p. 135
BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit	p. 163
Galatea: Open-Source Software for Developing Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agents	p. 187
MPML and SCREAM: Scripting the Bodies and Minds of Life-Like Characters	p. 213
Great Expectations: Prediction in Entertainment Applications	p. 245
Shallow and Inner Forms of Emotional Intelligence in Advisory Dialog Simulation	p. 271
Web Information Integration Using Multiple Character Agents	p. 295
Expressive Behaviors for Virtual Worlds	p. 317
Playing with Agents - Agents in Social and Dramatic Games	p. 361
A Review of the Development of Embodied Presentation Agents and Their Application Fields	p. 377
Interface Agents That Facilitate Knowledge Interactions Between Community Members	p. 405
Animated Agents Capable of Understanding Natural Language and Performing Actions	p. 429
What Makes Characters Seem Life-Like?	p. 447
Some Issues in the Design of Character Scripting and Specification Language - a Personal View	p. 463
Online Material	p. 469
Index	p. 471
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