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An Emotional Architecture for Virtual Characters

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Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling (ICVS 2005)

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This paper presents the mechanisms proposed by a generic cognitive architecture for virtual characters with emotional influenced behaviors, called cognitiva, to maintain behavior control at will without giving up the richness provided by emotions. This architecture, together with a progressive specification process for its application, have been used successfully to model 3D intelligent virtual actors for virtual storytelling.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Imbert & Angélica de Antonio

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  1. Université de Perpignan, LTS, 52, avenue de Villeneuve, 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France

    Gérard Subsol

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Imbert, R., de Antonio, A. (2005). An Emotional Architecture for Virtual Characters. In: Subsol, G. (eds) Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling. ICVS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3805. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590361_7

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