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Towards Virtual Actors for Acting Out Stories

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Entertainment for Education. Digital Techniques and Systems (Edutainment 2010)

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We contend that Virtual Actors will constitute a very important innovation for the edutainment industry. In this article, we will explore and deepen the concept of future Virtual Actors. We will also present novel applications that Virtual Actors will enable, and enter into user interface and interaction design issues related to the development of Virtual Actors. We expect to derive, from a deeper understanding of concepts specifically related to Virtual Actors, guidelines for future R&D.

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  1. Centro de Computação Gráfica (CCG), Guimarães, Portugal

    Ido A. Iurgel

  2. Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Ido A. Iurgel, Rogério E. da Silva & Manuel F. dos Santos

  3. Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Joinville, SC, Brazil

    Rogério E. da Silva

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Automation, LIAMA, The Sino-French Lab in Computer Science, NLPR, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Xiaopeng Zhang

  2. School of Software, Ideal Institute of Information and Technology, E-learning Laboratory of Jilin Province, Engineering & Research Center of E-learning, Northeast Normal University, 130117, ChangChun, China

    Shaochun Zhong

  3. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, DEARC – Digital Entertainment and Animation Research Center, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  4. School of Information Technology, South St. Murdoch, Murdoch University, 6150, Perth, WA, Australia

    Kevin Wong

  5. School of Education and Science, Digital Entertainment Research Center, Nanjing Normal University, 310097, Nanjing, China

    Ruwei Yun

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Iurgel, I.A., da Silva, R.E., dos Santos, M.F. (2010). Towards Virtual Actors for Acting Out Stories. In: Zhang, X., Zhong, S., Pan, Z., Wong, K., Yun, R. (eds) Entertainment for Education. Digital Techniques and Systems. Edutainment 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6249. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14533-9_58

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