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Multiple Virtual Human Interactions

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Autonomous virtual humans need to be able to interact between each others in virtual environments. These interactions are essentials for the generation of realistic behaviours from virtual humans. This chapter presents a review about interactions between real and multiple virtual humans, as well as between themselves. After presenting the problematics and approaches raised by virtual humans interactions, different methods for simulating such interactions are discussed. Interactions between real and multiple virtual humans are presented first with a focus on virtual assistants and social phobia examples. Interactions between virtual humans are then adressed, particularly gaze attention of other characters and navigation interactions between multiple virtual humans.

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Lemercier, S., Thalmann, D. (2016). Multiple Virtual Human Interactions. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Yuan, J., Thalmann, D., You, BJ. (eds) Context Aware Human-Robot and Human-Agent Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19947-4_12

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