Socially Expressive Communication Agents: a Face-centric Approach

Interactive Face Animation Comprehensive Environment (iFACE) is a generalpurpose software framework that encapsulates the functionality of “face multimedia object”. iFACE exposes programming interfaces and provides authoring and scripting tools to design a face object, define its behaviors, and animate it through static or interactive situations. The framework is based on four parameterized spaces of Geometry, Mood, Personality, and Knowledge that together form the appearance and behavior of the face object. iFACE capabilities are demonstrated within the context of some artistic and educational projects .