Building Expression into Virtual Characters

Vinayagamoorthy, V.; Gillies, M.; Steed, A.; Tanguy, E.; Pan, X.; Loscos, C.; Slater, M.

Building Expression into Virtual Characters

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Date

2006

Authors

Vinayagamoorthy, V.
Gillies, M.
Steed, A.
Tanguy, E.
Pan, X.
Loscos, C.
Slater, M.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Virtual characters are an important part of many 3D graphical simulations. In entertainment or training applications, virtual characters might be one of the main mechanisms for creating and developing content and scenarios. In such applications the user may need to interact with a number of different characters that need to invoke specific responses in the user, so that the user interprets the scenario in the way that the designer intended. Whilst representations of virtual characters have come a long way in recent years, interactive virtual characters tend to be a bit "wooden" with respect to their perceived behaviour. In this STAR we give an overview of work on expressive virtual characters. In particular, we assume that a virtual character representation is already available, and we describe a variety of models and methods that are used to give the characters more "depth" so that they are less wooden and more plausible. We cover models of individual characters emotion and personality, models of interpersonal behaviour and methods for generating expression.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egst.20061052
,
booktitle = {Eurographics 2006 - State of the Art Reports
},
editor = {Brian Wyvill and Alexander Wilkie
},
title = {{Building Expression into Virtual Characters
}},
author = {Vinayagamoorthy, V. and 
Gillies, M. and 
Steed, A. and 
Tanguy, E. and 
Pan, X. and 
Loscos, C. and 
Slater, M.
},
year = {2006
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {10.2312/egst.20061052
}
}