Title :
Development of an avatar language chatting system and its communication experiment using a Japanese communications satellite
Author :
Aoki, Yoshinao ; Tanahashi, Shin ; Li, Jincan ; Hashimoto, Atsushi ; Sugio, Naohisa ; Mitsuhashi, Ryuichi ; Hatsuda, Takeshi
Author_Institution :
Div. of Inf. Media Eng., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a chatting system that uses avatar language to communicate across the linguistic barriers. We developed a CG system for generating CG animations of words from avatar language. A communication experiment was performed using a Japanese communications satellite to confirm the validity of the developed chatting system
Keywords :
computer animation; multimedia communication; natural languages; satellite communication; CG animations; Internet; avatar language; chatting system; gestures; linguistic barriers; sign languages; Animation; Artificial satellites; Avatars; Character generation; Deafness; Dictionaries; Handicapped aids; Internet; Multimedia communication; Natural languages;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE 3rd Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5610-1
DOI :
10.1109/MMSP.1999.793927
