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When designing virtual humans, it is imperative that the virtual agent behave in a human-like fashion. In certain circumstances, this requires agents to be bounded in their ability to sense and understand the environment. To this end, we create a methodology that provides perceptual attention based on a linear combination of senses. We use different heuristics on the object and events that can be sensed by a virtual agent, and combine these scores to create an overall score for a given object or event. This allows the virtual agent to perceive interesting or unexpected items. To demonstrate our technique, we give an example showing the ability of using a linear combination of senses.
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Balint, T., Allbeck, J.M. (2013). What’s Going on? Multi-sense Attention for Virtual Agents. In: Aylett, R., Krenn, B., Pelachaud, C., Shimodaira, H. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40415-3_31
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