Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors Towards Autonomous Personality Agents /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Trappl, Robert (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Petta, Paolo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1195
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Computer graphics.; Multimedia information systems.; Computers and civilization.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Graphics.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computers and Society.

Progress in computer animation has gained such a speed that, before long, computer-generated human faces and figures on screen will be indistinguishable from those of real humans. The potential both for scripted films and real-time interaction with users is enormous. However, in order to cope with t...

Table of Contents:

• Why to create personalities for synthetic actors
• Dressing virtual humans
• Autonomous virtual actors based on virtual sensors
• Towards personalities for animated agents with reactive and planning behaviors
• IMPROV: A system for real-time animation of behavior-based interactive synthetic actors
• Multi-level control for animated autonomous agents: Do the right thing... Oh, not that...
• Tools for an interactive virtual cinema
• Acting in character
• Some requirements and approaches for natural language in a believable agent
• Personality parameters and programs
• What sort of control system is able to have a personality?
• Personalities for synthetic actors: Current issues and some perspectives
• Personalities for synthetic actors: A bibliography.