Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Preserving Avatar Genuineness in Different Display Media

  • Published:
Mobile Networks and Applications Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Our research focuses on enabling users to interact with others using 3D avatars with the same appearance and personality in different media such as the Internet, SMS or television and using different devices such as PCs, MACs, PDAs, mobile phones and televisions. This work’s main contribution is its use of a unique architecture, tested with a contact application, which is compatible with different media. The avatar appearance editor, the animation engine and the 3D models are the same for the different media: TV, SMS and Internet chat.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Figure 5
Figure 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Aizpurua; I., Ortiz, A., Oyarzun, D., Arizkuren, I., Posada, J. and Andrés, A.C. Adaptation of mesh morphing techniques for multilingual avatars used in web applications. Third International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 2004

  2. Alexa M, Behr J, Mäuler W (2000) The morph node. Proceedings Web 3D/WRML, pp 29–34, Monterrey

  3. Amin AK, Kersten BTA, Kulyk OA, Pelgrim PH, Wang CM, Markopoulos P (2005) SenseMS: a user-centered approach to enrich the messaging experience for teens by non-verbal means. Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services, pp 161–166, Salzburg, Austria

  4. Berner U, Rieger TA (2002) Scalable avatar for conversational user interfaces. User Interfaces for All, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  5. Coppens T, Trappeniers L, Godon M (2004) AmigoTV: towards a social TV experience. Proceedings from the Second European Conference on Interactive Television “Enhancing the experience”, University of Brighton

  6. Gâteau B, Khadraoui D (2006) Arbitration of autonomous multimedia objects with a multi-agent system. Inf Commun Technol ICTTA’06 2:3007–3012

    Google Scholar 

  7. Khadraoui M, Hirsbruner B, MeinKohn F, Khadraoui D, Courant M (2005) Interactive TV show based on avatars. 2005 systems communications (ICW’05, ICHSN’05, ICMCS’05, SENET'05), pp 192–197

  8. Ma C, Osherenko A, Prendinger H, Ishiizuka MA (2005) Chat system based on emotion estimation from text and embodied conversational messengers. Active Media Technology, 2005. (ATM 2005) Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference, May 19–21, pp 546–548

  9. Maad S (2003) MARILYN: a novel platform for intelligent interactive TV (IITV). Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction International HCII2003 Conference, Crete, Greece, July 2003

  10. Mochizuki Y, Senda K, Orimoto K, Tagawa J, Asahara S (2004) Humanoid agent for communication and entertainment driven by emotion and “Kansei” in embedded system. Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, pp 551–556

  11. Mosmondor M, Kosutic T, Pandzic L (2005) LiveMail: personalized avatars for mobile entertainment. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, June 2005.

  12. Persson P (2003) ExMS: a field study of expressive mobile messaging with avatar-based animations. Proceeding of CHI 2003 (CHI ‘03)

  13. Tobita H, Rekimoto J (2004) Flat3D: a shared virtual 3D world grown by creative activities and communication through the network. Proceedings Computer Graphics International, pp 476–479

  14. Marriott A, Beard S, Stallo J, Huynh Q (2001) VHML—directing a talking head. Proceedings of the 6th International Computer Science Conference on Active Media Technology, pp 90–100, December 18–20

  15. Vilhjálmsson H, Cassell J (1998) Bodychat: autonomous communicative behaviors in avatars. International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Minneapolis, MN, USA, pp 269–276

Download references

Acknowledgment

One author was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) grant TIN2006-14968-C02-01.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. VICOMTech, Mikeletegi Pasealekua 57, 20009, San Sebastian, Spain

    María del Puy Carretero, David Oyarzun & Amalia Ortiz

  2. Donewtech Solution, S.L., Zubiberri Bidea 31, 20018, San Sebastian, Spain

    Iosu Arizkuren & Raul Navas

  3. University of the Basque Country, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 1, 20018, San Sebastian, Spain

    Alejandro García-Alonso

Authors
  1. María del Puy Carretero
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. David Oyarzun
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Amalia Ortiz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Iosu Arizkuren
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Raul Navas
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Alejandro García-Alonso
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to María del Puy Carretero.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Carretero, M.d.P., Oyarzun, D., Ortiz, A. et al. Preserving Avatar Genuineness in Different Display Media. Mobile Netw Appl 13, 627–634 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-008-0094-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-008-0094-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation