NDLI: Natural interaction with culturally adaptive virtual characters

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Author	Kistler, Felix Endrass, Birgit Damian, Ionut Dang, Chi Tai André, Elisabeth
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Recently, the verbal and non-verbal behavior of virtual characters has become more and more sophisticated due to advances in behavior planning and rendering. Nevertheless, the appearance and behavior of these characters is in most cases based on the cultural background of their designers. Especially in combination with new natural interaction interfaces, there is the risk that characters developed for a particular culture might not find acceptance when being presented to another culture. A few attempts have been made to create characters that reflect a particular cultural background. However, interaction with these characters still remains an awkward experience in particular when it comes to non-verbal interaction. In many cases, human users either have to choose actions from a menu their avatar has to execute or they have to struggle with obtrusive interaction devices. In contrast, our paper combines an approach to the generation of culture-specific behaviors with full body avatar control based on the Kinect sensor. A first study revealed that users are able to easily control an avatar through their body movements and immediately adapt its behavior to the cultural background of the agents they interact with.
Starting Page	39
Ending Page	47
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	17837677
Journal	Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	17838738
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2012-01-20
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Full body tracking Virtual agents Natural interaction Nonverbal behavior Gesture recognition Culture Signal, Image and Speech Processing User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Image Processing and Computer Vision
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Human-Computer Interaction

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