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Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014)

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The Agent Framework is a real-time development platform designed for the rapid prototyping of graphical and agent-centric applications. Previous use cases show the potential of the Agent Framework, which is currently used in a project that combines facial animation, non-photorealistic rendering and their application in autism research.

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  1. Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

    Diana Arellano & Volker Helzle

  2. University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany

    Ulrich Max Schaller & Reinhold Rauh

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  1. College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, 202 West Village H, 360 Huntington Avenue, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Timothy Bickmore  & Stacy Marsella  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 01609, Worcester, MA, USA

    Candace Sidner

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Arellano, D., Helzle, V., Schaller, U.M., Rauh, R. (2014). Animated Faces, Abstractions and Autism. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_3

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