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Helmut Prendinger - Life-Like Characters - 9783642056550 - V9783642056550
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Life-Like Characters

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Description for Life-Like Characters Paperback. Series: Cognitive Technologies. Num Pages: 480 pages, 9 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: UG; UYQ; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 684.

Life-like characters is one of the most exciting technologies for human-computer interface applications today. They convincingly take the roles of virtual presenters, synthetic actors and sales personas, teammates and tutors. A common characteristic underlying their life-likeness or believability as virtual conversational partners is computational models that provide them with affective functions such as synthetic emotions and personalities and implement human interactive behavior. The wide dissemination of life-like characters in multimedia systems, however, will greatly depend on the availability of control languages and tools that facilitate scripting of intelligent conversational behaviour. This book presents the first comprehensive collection of the latest ... Read more

Life-like characters being a vibrant research area, various applications have been designed and implemented. This book offers coverage of the most successful and promising applications, ranging from product presentation and student training to knowledge integration and interactive gaming. It also discusses the key challenges in the area and provides design guidelines for employing life-like characters.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Series
Cognitive Technologies
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642056550
SKU
V9783642056550
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

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