Online learning platforms are integrated systems designed to provide students and teachers
with information, tools and resources to facilitate and enhance the delivery and management …

Human embodiment/representation in virtual environments (VEs) similarly to the human
body in real life is endowed with multimodal input/output capabilities that convey multiform …

Video game developers continuously increase the degree of details and realism in games to
create more human-like characters. But increasing the human-likeness becomes a problem …

The characteristics of virtual faces can be important factors for avatars and characters in
video games. Previous work investigates how users create their own avatars and …

There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method,
and a program capable of performing synthesis that is desirable for users as described …

REVERIE (REal and Virtual Engagement in Realistic Immersive Environments [1]) targets
novel research to address the demanding challenges involved with develo** state-of-the …

In this paper, we describe the enactment of autonomous agents and avatars in the web-
based social collaborative virtual environment of REVERIE that supports natural, human-like …

Understanding the effect of facial features on human's perception and emotion is widely
studied in different disciplines. In video games, this is especially important to improve the …

In recent years, networked virtual environments have steadily grown to become a frontier in
social computing. Such virtual cyberspaces are usually accessed by multiple users through …

Abstract To evaluate Virtual Reality (VR) prototypes usability involves a variety of single-
perspective or Hybrid methods. The latter has being suggested by literature as offering a …