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On developing a voice-enabled interface for interactive tour-guide robots

This paper considers design methodologies in order to develop voice-enabled interfaces for tour-guide robots deployed at the Robotics Exposition of the Swiss National Exhibition (Expo.02). Human–robot voice communication presents new challenges for design ...

2003

Defining behaviors for autonomous agents based on local perception and smart objects

Daniel Thalmann

An integrated framework is proposed in which local perception and close manipulation skills are used in conjunction with a high-level behavioral interface based on a "smart object" paradigm as support for virtual agents to perform autonomous tasks. In our ...

Elsevier2002

Voice Enabled Interface for Interactive Tour Guide Robots

Roland Siegwart, Guy Ramel

This paper considers design methodologies in order to develop voice-enabled interfaces for tour-guide robots to be deployed at the Robotics Exposition of the Swiss National Exhibition (Expo.02). Human-robot voice communication presents new challenges for d ...

2002

Integrating behavioural animation techniques

Daniel Thalmann, Jean-Sébastien Monzani

Our research focuses on animating autonomous virtual humans which are able to take decisions by themselves. We especially address in this paper the technical problem of integrating altogether the physical simulation of agents (represented as virtual humans ...

Blackwell Science Ltd2001

Hierarchical model for real time simulation of virtual human crowds

Daniel Thalmann

This paper describes a model for simulating crowds of humans in real time. We deal with a hierarchy composed of virtual crowds, groups, and individuals. The groups are the most complex structure that can be controlled in different degrees of autonomy. This ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society2001

Sharing attractions on the Net with VPark

Daniel Thalmann, Joaquim Esmerado

We present a networked virtual environment (NVE) system and an attraction building system based on Windows NT that enables users to introduce their own scenario-based applications into a shared virtual environment. Our goal was to develop and integrate sev ...

IEEE2001

A paradigm for controlling virtual humans in urban environment simulations

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

Presents a new architecture for simulating virtual humans in complex urban environments. The approach is based on the integration of six modules. Four key modules are used in order to manage environmental data, simulate human crowds, control interactions b ...

Taylor & Francis2000

Augmented reality for real and virtual humans

Daniel Thalmann, Pascal Fua, Michal Ponder

Current virtual reality technologies provide many ways to interact with virtual humans. Most of those techniques, however, are limited to synthetic elements and require cumbersome sensors. We have combined a real-time simulation and rendering platform with ...

IEEE Comput. Soc. Press2000

ACE: a platform for the real time simulation of virtual human agents

Daniel Thalmann, Jean-Sébastien Monzani

The paper describes a system platform for virtual human agent simulations that is able to coherently manage the shared virtual environment. Our “agent common environment” (ACE) provides built-in commands for perception and for acting, while the ...

Springer-Verlag/Wien2000

A high-level architecture for believable social agents

Daniel Thalmann, Anthony Guye-Vuillème

The creation or virtual humans capable of behaving and interacting realistically with each other requires the development of autonomous believable social agents. Standard goal-oriented approaches are not well suited to it because they don't take into accou ...

Springer-Verlag2000

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