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New Advances in Virtual Humans

Artificial Intelligence Environment

  • Presents the latest research on "Fusing Intelligence in Virtual Agents"..
  • Surveys the fusion of intelligence in virtual agents for enhancing the design of virtual society

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 140)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. 1 Innovations in Virtual Humans

    • Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann
    Pages 1-41
  3. Intelligent Virtual Humans with Autonomy and Personality: State-of-the-Art

    • Zerrin Kasap, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
    Pages 43-84
  4. Social Intelligence in Virtual Groups

    • Rui Prada, Ana Paiva
    Pages 113-132
  5. Modeling Gesticulation Expression in Virtual Humans

    • Celso M. de Melo, Ana Paiva
    Pages 133-151
  6. MIKI: A Case Study of an Intelligent Kiosk and Its Usability

    • Lee McCauley, Sidney D’Mello, Loel Kim, Melanie Polkosky
    Pages 153-176
  7. Back Matter

About this book

In this book, various aspects of cognitive and emotional behaviour is described. In chapter one, a state of the art introduction to VH is presented and the associated research is given. In Chapter 2, cognitive and emotions processes are described. A Comprehensive context model for multi-party interactions with the VH is given in the next chapter. Finally, it is very important to model the socializing of groups of virtual humans. This is discussed in Chapter 4. The automatic modelling of expressions for VH is described in Chapter 5. The last chapter gives a case study of an intelligent kios avatar and its usability.

This book gives examples of some advances that enable VH to behave intelligently. It provides an overview of these research problems and some unsolved problems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Advances in Virtual Humans

  • Book Subtitle: Artificial Intelligence Environment

  • Editors: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Lakhmi C. Jain, Nikhil Ichalkaranje

  • Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79868-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79867-5Published: 23 July 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09862-8Published: 23 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79868-2Published: 03 September 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1860-949X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-9503

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 180

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical and Computational Engineering

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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