Modeling pedestrian dynamics and their implementation in a computer are challenging and
important issues in the knowledge areas of transportation and computer simulation. The aim …

Virtual learning environments often use virtual characters to facilitate and improve the
learning process. These characters, known as pedagogical agents, can take on different …

In human interaction, people will keep different distances from each other depending on
their gender. For example, males will stand further away from males and closer to females …

This course will introduce students, researchers and digital artists to the recent results in
perceptual research on virtual characters. It covers both how technical and artistic aspects …

Many time-series such as human movement data consist of a sequence of basic actions, eg,
forehands and backhands in tennis. Automatically extracting and characterizing such …

One might question why we need appearance for a metaphor to work as voice assistants
can effectively express the characteristics of a metaphor solely through behavior. We argue …

In this article, we investigate the perception of gender from the motion of virtual humans
under different emotional conditions and explore the effect of emotional bias on gender …

Artists and animators have observed that children's movements are quite different from
adults performing the same action. Previous computer graphics research on human motion …

The ability to select or customize characters in educational applications and games has
been shown to influence factors related to learning effects such as transfer, self-efficacy, and …

Populating virtual words with realistic pedestrian behaviours is challenging but essential to
ensure natural interactions with users. In pedestrian encounters, successful collision …