■ Abstract Until recently, studies of plant reproductive systems have been at the population level, using microevolutionary approaches. The development of cladistic approaches, combined with the emergence of molecular systematics, has resulted in an explosion of phylogenetic studies and an increase in interdisciplinary approaches combining ecological and systematic methodology. These new approa...

In a future scenario where many devices can be controlled using the voice, easy and intuitive access and will be crucial for avoiding cognitive overload when faced with many different systems and interaction models. We propose a model for interaction with spoken language interfaces with heterogeneous tasks, based on the idea of using a family of life-like characters. The properties of these cha...

Future interfaces will increasingly explore three-dimensional (3D) scenes that will have 3D virtual characters interacting with users. Currently, the characters’ influence on users’ navigation is not well known. The aim of our research is to study the potential of virtual characters in influencing users’ decisions in 3D virtual environments. We implemented an art gallery where human-like charac...

Social Computing aims to support the tendency of humans to interact with computers as if they were veritable social actors. Technology that reinforces the bias toward social interaction by producing appropriate responses may improve the communication between humans and computational devices. We believe that the most natural way to realize social computing is by using life-like synthetic charact...

This paper describes the aims and concepts of the FP7 RE@CT project. Building upon the latest advances in 3D capture and free-viewpoint video RE@CT aims to revolutionise the production of realistic characters and significantly reduce costs by developing an automated process to extract and represent animated characters from actor performance capture in a multiple camera studio. The key innovatio...

Luigi Pirandello’s play, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921, Sei personaggi cerca d’autore) portrays numerous significant and functional characteristics metatheatre, a concept coined by Lionel Abel. By drawing on such metatheatrical features the play within technique, presents six characters that are search author. This study will, therefore, explain metatheatre present critical analys...

Emotions play a central role in most forms of natural human interaction so we may expect that computational methods for the processing and expression of emotions will play a growing role in human-computer interaction. The OCC model has established itself as the standard model for emotion synthesis. A large number of studies employed the OCC model to generate emotions for their embodied characte...