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Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors

Author : Robert Trappl

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 24,3 MB

Release : 1997-03-20

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9783540627357

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Progress in computer animation has gained such a speed that, before long, computer-generated human faces and figures on screen will be indistinguishable from those of real humans. The potential both for scripted films and real-time interaction with users is enormous. However, in order to cope with this potential, these faces and figures must be guided by autonomous personality agents. This carefully arranged volume presents the state of the art in research and development in making synthetic actors more autonomous. The papers describe the different approaches and solutions developed by computer animation specialists, computer scientists, experts in AI, psychologists and philosophers, from leading laboratories world-wide. Finally, a bibliography comprising more than 200 entries enable further study.



Artificial Intelligence Today

Author : Michael J. Wooldridge

Publisher : Springer

Page : 489 pages

File Size : 39,70 MB

Release : 2007-03-06

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540483179

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Artificial Intelligence is one of the most fascinating and unusual areas of academic study to have emerged this century. For some, AI is a true scientific discipline, that has made important and fundamental contributions to the use of computation for our understanding of nature and phenomena of the human mind; for others, AI is the black art of computer science. Artificial Intelligence Today provides a showcase for the field of AI as it stands today. The editors invited contributions both from traditional subfields of AI, such as theorem proving, as well as from subfields that have emerged more recently, such as agents, AI and the Internet, or synthetic actors. The papers themselves are a mixture of more specialized research papers and authorative survey papers. The secondary purpose of this book is to celebrate Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.



Intelligent Virtual Agents

Author : Jonathan Gratch

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 485 pages

File Size : 32,59 MB

Release : 2006-08-10

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540375937

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2006. The book presents 24 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers together with 3 invited talks and the abstracts of 19 poster papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on social impact of IVAs, IVAs recognizing human behavior, human interpretation of IVA behavior, embodied conversational agents, characteristics of nonverbal behavior and more.



RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II

Author : Minoru Asada

Publisher : Springer

Page : 521 pages

File Size : 40,64 MB

Release : 2003-06-29

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540484221

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RoboCup is an international initiative devoted to advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence and robotics. The aims of the project and potential research directions are numerous. The ultimate, long-range goal is to build a team of robot soccer players that can beat a human World Cup champion team. This book is the second official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the Second International Workshop on RoboCup held in Paris, France, in July 1998. The book opens with an overview section, provides research papers on selected technical topics, and presents technical and strategic descriptions of the work of participating teams. Of interest far beyond the rapidly growing RoboCup community, this book is also indispensable reading for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.



Emotions in Humans and Artifacts

Author : Robert Trappl

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 410 pages

File Size : 11,11 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9780262201421

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Emotions: from brain research to computer game development / Robert Trappl / - A theory of emotion, its functions, and its adaptive value / Edmund T. Rolls / - How many separately evolved emotional beasties live within us? / Aaron Sloman / - Designing emotions for activity selection in autonomous agents / Lola D. Cañamero / - Emotions : meaningful mappings between the individual and its world / Kirstie L. Bellman / - On making believable emotional agents believable / Andrew Ortony / - What does it mean for a computer to "have" emotions? / Rosalind W. Picard / - The role of elegance in emotion and personality : reasoning for believable agents / Clark Elliott / - The role of emotions in a tractable architecture for situated cognizers / Paolo Petta / - The Wolfgang system : a role of "emotions" to bias learning and problem solving when learning to compose music / Douglas Riecken / - A Bayesian heart : computer recognition and simulation of emotion / Eugene Ball / - Creating emotional rel ...



Co-Corporeality of Humans, Machines, & Microbes

Author : Barbara Imhof

Publisher : Birkhäuser

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 34,64 MB

Release : 2022-07-18

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 3035625883

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The theory of Co-Corporeality is based on a conception of the built environment as a biological entity that opens up a space for coexistence and interaction between humans and microbial life. Based on design-led research, this book explores how we can develop environments for a multispecies world. It focuses on the agency of both human and nonhuman actors. New sensor tools enable observation of and interaction between these different actors. Co-Corporeality links microbiology to material science, artificial intelligence, and architecture. The focus is on how microbial activity can create new protoarchitectural materials, how living systems can be integrated into architecture and cooperate along different time scales.



Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment

Author : Stefan Göbel

Publisher : Springer

Page : 393 pages

File Size : 26,20 MB

Release : 2006-11-17

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3540499350

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Book Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, TIDSE 2006, held in Darmstadt, Germany in December 2006. It contains 37 papers that cover a broad spectrum, from conceptual ideas, theories, and technological questions, to best practice examples in the different storytelling application domains, with a focus on entertainment and games.



Transactions on Edutainment I

Author : Abdennour El Rhalibi

Publisher : Springer

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 49,34 MB

Release : 2008-06-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3540697446

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Book Description

This volume contains contributions from Edutainment 2008, the 3rd International Conference on E-Learning and Games. It serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies in the field.



Community Computing and Support Systems

Author : Toru Ishida

Publisher : Springer

Page : 401 pages

File Size : 42,30 MB

Release : 2003-05-20

Category : Computers

ISBN : 354049247X

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The widespread use of global networks like the Internet and mobile computing have made worldwide computing over virtual communities a reality. This is the first book devoted to community computing. It is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998. The 24 revised full papers presented together with an introduction to the emerging field were carefully selected and revised for inclusion in the book. The book is divided in parts on models and concepts, methodologies for large scale trials, sharing knowledge and preferences, supporting social interaction, and agent technologies in communities.



Life-Like Characters

Author : Helmut Prendinger

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 474 pages

File Size : 26,15 MB

Release : 2013-03-09

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3662083736

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For the first time, a comprehensive collection of the latest developments in scripting and representation languages for life-like characters. The text introduces toolkits for authoring animated characters which further supports the practicality and ease of use of this new interface technology. As life-like characters is a vibrant research area, various applications have been designed and implemented. The text covers 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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