TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic generation of non-verbal behavior for agents in virtual worlds
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2009. Held as Part of HCI International 2009
AU - Breitfuss, Werner
AU - Prendinger, Helmut
AU - Ishizuka, Mitsuru
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper presents a system capable of automatically adding gestures to an embodied virtual character processing information from a simple text input. Gestures are generated based on the analysis of linguistic and contextual information of the input text. The system is embedded in the virtual world called second life and consists of an in world object and an off world server component that handles the analysis. Either a user controlled avatar or a non user controlled character can be used to display the gestures, that are timed with speech output from an Text-to-Speech system, and so show non verbal behavior without pushing the user to manually select it.
AB - This paper presents a system capable of automatically adding gestures to an embodied virtual character processing information from a simple text input. Gestures are generated based on the analysis of linguistic and contextual information of the input text. The system is embedded in the virtual world called second life and consists of an in world object and an off world server component that handles the analysis. Either a user controlled avatar or a non user controlled character can be used to display the gestures, that are timed with speech output from an Text-to-Speech system, and so show non verbal behavior without pushing the user to manually select it.
KW - Animated Agent Systems
KW - Embodied Virtual Characters
KW - Multimodal Output Generation
KW - Multimodal Presentations
KW - Virtual Worlds
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76649116519
SN - 3642027733
SN - 9783642027734
VL - 5621 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 153
EP - 161
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Y2 - 19 July 2009 through 24 July 2009
ER -