The modelling of affective behaviour and appropriate bodily expression to make synthetic characters more believable becomes important in many types of applications such as games, story telling, training environment, virtual therapy and interactive conversational agents. This paper describes report on the results of an experiment designed to study the empathy inspired to users when looking at st...

This contribution examines Uncle Sam's development during the nineteenth century as an interesting case study for transmedial character theory, increasingly common approach to of fictional characters. However, Scolari, Bertetti, and Freeman have argued, "older forms transmedia franchises were constructed on sharing rather than logics a particular world" (17). Characters still are in many cases ...

This contribution examines Uncle Sam's development during the nineteenth century as an interesting case study for transmedial character theory, increasingly common approach to of fictional characters. However, Scolari, Bertetti, and Freeman have argued, "older forms transmedia franchises were constructed on sharing rather than logics a particular world" (17). Characters still are in many cases ...

In this paper, an attempt is made to develop off-line recognition strategies for the isolated Handwritten English character(A to Z) and (0 to 9). Challenges in handwritten character recognition wholly lie in the variation and distortion of handwritten characters, since different people may use different style of handwritten, and direction to draw the same shape of the characters of their known ...

A case study of two fictional characters in two television series investigates American Southern prosody and introduces prosodic analysis into studies of language and media. Using media to investigate prosody is new to both the fields of prosody and media studies. Media representations are built off of assumed shared knowledge between the producer and the viewer (Bubel & Spitz 2006). Thus, the ...

| This paper presents a writer independent system for large vocabulary recognition of on-line handwritten cursive words. The system rst uses a ltering module, based on simple letter features, to quickly reduce a large reference dictionary (lexicon) to a more manageable size; the reduced lexicon is subsequently fed to a recognition module. The recognition module uses a temporal representation of...

Traditional text compression algorithms such as Huffman and LZ variants are usually based on 8-bit characters sampling. However, under the unicode representation for multilingual information, the character set of each language such as Chinese and Japanese is consisted of a very number of distinct characters and thus 16-bit or 32-bit character sampling is needed. Consequently, when text compress...

The study was an attempt to investigate the effect of animated etymology on English speakers’ learning of Chinese characters. Twenty-one Chinese language beginners at an Australian university were randomly assigned into three groups using three different types of instructional materials to learn Chinese characters: a) paper-based plain text material with only English meanings; b) paper-based ma...