Vilhjalmsson H.H., Autonomous Communicative Behaviors in Avatars, M.Sc. thesis, MIT, 1997  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles

....avatars. Although these systems have evolved graphically, communication is still predominantly based on text or audio links. User embodiment is there to indicate the presence of the user in a particular location while the interface provides limited support for non verbal communication features[16]. This also affects self representation of the participants in a CVE and the capabilities of personalisation of their selected body images; these images should convey information about the identity, the personality or even the availability of each user. The basic premise of this paper is, ....

....Voice audio support could help to convey emotion on DIVE, Massive, onLive and Oz, however, research has showed[6] that troublesome audio could affect turn taking in a conversation; again, non verbal communication cues are invaluable. A novel approach was presented by Vilhjalmsson in his thesis[16]. His system, BodyChat , treats the avatar as an autonomous agent whose face is animated based on a set of parameters. Still, the avatar is partially controlled by the system and not directly by the user. Having in mind that the interface should be driven by the task, the challenge for the future ....

Vilhjalmsson H.H., Autonomous Communicative Behaviors in Avatars, M.Sc. thesis, MIT, 1997

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