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FAN-VE: A Tool for Facial Animation Generation in Virtual Reality Education

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Teachers play a critical role in the education process. The importance of this role is not diminished when transitioning into Education inside Virtual Reality. With the rise of popularity in VR and remote education, the optimization of virtual teachers becomes needed. In this paper, we present a tool that provides facial animations to virtual teachers. The tool is designed to be user friendly, generic, and work across different models and facial expressions in order to serve a wide range of use cases. The tool was tested for usability and feedback was collected regarding its functionality. Our results indicate that our tool is user friendly and needed and has potential for further development and adoption.

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  1. German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Mostafa Alaa

  2. German International University, Cairo, Egypt

    Mostafa Alaa & Slim Abdennadher

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  1. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  2. Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Ana Almeida

  3. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Fernandez

  4. German International University, Cairo, Egypt

    Alia El Bolock

  5. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  6. Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

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  7. National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, Amadora, Portugal

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Alaa, M., Abdennadher, S. (2022). FAN-VE: A Tool for Facial Animation Generation in Virtual Reality Education. In: González-Briones, A., et al. Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1678. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18697-4_12

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