IDEAS4Games: Building Expressive Virtual Characters for Computer Games Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3374584, abstract = {In this paper we present two virtual characters in an interactive poker game using RFID-tagged poker cards for the interaction. To support the game creation process, we have combined models, methods, and technology that are currently investigated in the ECA research field in a unique way. A powerful and easy-to-use multimodal dialog authoring tool is used for the modeling of game content and interaction. The poker characters rely on a sophisticated model of affect and a state-of-the art speech synthesizer. During the game, the characters show a consistent expressive behavior that reflects the individually simulated affect in speech and animations. As a result, users are provided with an engaging interactive poker experience.}, author = {Gebhard, Patrick and Schr\"{o}der, Marc and Charfuelan, Marcela and Endres, Christoph and Kipp, Michael and Pammi, Sathish and Rumpler, Martin and T\"{u}rk, Oytun}, booktitle = {Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '08)}, citeulike-article-id = {3374584}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_43}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_43}, journal = {Intelligent Virtual Agents}, keywords = {id-eaz-vp-c}, pages = {426--440}, posted-at = {2009-01-22 14:32:29}, priority = {2}, title = {IDEAS4Games: Building Expressive Virtual Characters for Computer Games}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_43}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3374584 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3374584 N2 - In this paper we present two virtual characters in an interactive poker game using RFID-tagged poker cards for the interaction. To support the game creation process, we have combined models, methods, and technology that are currently investigated in the ECA research field in a unique way. A powerful and easy-to-use multimodal dialog authoring tool is used for the modeling of game content and interaction. The poker characters rely on a sophisticated model of affect and a state-of-the art speech synthesizer. During the game, the characters show a consistent expressive behavior that reflects the individually simulated affect in speech and animations. As a result, users are provided with an engaging interactive poker experience. JF - Intelligent Virtual Agents EP - 440 TI - IDEAS4Games: Building Expressive Virtual Characters for Computer Games T2 - Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '08) SP - 426 KW - id-eaz-vp-c AU - Gebhard, Patrick AU - Schröder, Marc AU - Charfuelan, Marcela AU - Endres, Christoph AU - Kipp, Michael AU - Pammi, Sathish AU - Rumpler, Martin AU - Türk, Oytun PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_43 ER -