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Towards Believable Interactions Between Synthetic Characters

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017)

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Believable interactions between synthetic characters are an important factor defining the success of a virtual environment relying on human participants being able to create emotional bonds with artificial characters. As important as the characters being themselves believable is that the interaction with or between such characters is believable. In this work, we bridge affective computing and traditional animation principles to create 3Motion, a model for synthetic character interaction based on anticipation and emotion that allows for precise affective communication of intention-based behaviors. We present an exploratory study with 52 participants supporting that our approach is able to increase overall interaction believability.

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID, Taguspark Campus, Av. Prof. Dr. Cavaco Silva, 2744-016, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Ricardo Rodrigues & Carlos Martinho

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  1. Ricardo Rodrigues
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Correspondence to Ricardo Rodrigues or Carlos Martinho .

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jonas Beskow

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Christopher Peters

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ginevra Castellano

  4. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Carol O'Sullivan

  5. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Iolanda Leite

  6. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

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Rodrigues, R., Martinho, C. (2017). Towards Believable Interactions Between Synthetic Characters. In: Beskow, J., Peters, C., Castellano, G., O'Sullivan, C., Leite, I., Kopp, S. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_48

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