Transmission avatars

Avatars: A Shifting Interaction

The intersection of theatre-performance, design, and informatics is a fertile area for a broader understanding of the possible design and interaction between people and avatars in simulated three dimensional information spaces. This paper outlines the theoretical modelling for the visualization of a generic avatar template applicable to information spaces. Such a representation, it is theorised...

Psychologically Grounded Avatars Expressions

Progress in computer graaphics over the last decade has rendered the creation of believable anthropomorphic graphical avatars possible. Issues in rendering these animated graphical avatars believable and engaging during Human-Computer Interaction still remain. In this article, we focus on the animation of avatar’s facial expressions. We explain how we created our animation on Scherer’s theory o...

Will Avatars Offer Answers?

Avatars and Agents

Smart Avatars in JackMOO

Creation of compelling 3-dimensional, multi-user virtual worlds for education and training applications requires a high degree of realism in the appearance, interaction, and behavior of avatars within the scene. Our goal is to develop and/or adapt existing 3-dimensional technologies to provide training scenarios across the Internet in a form as close as possible to the appearance and interactio...