A model of nonverbal communication and interpersonal relationship between virtual actors

Author

Becheiraz, P. ; Thalmann, D.

Author_Institution

Comput. Graphics Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1996

fDate

3-4 Jun 1996

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

67

Abstract

The paper presents a model of nonverbal communication and interpersonal relationship between virtual actors. Nonverbal communication improves their believability. They react not only to the presence of the other actors but also to their postures. Furthermore, their interpersonal relationships me affected by the issue of social interactions. To avoid homogenous group behaviors, each actor is set with a different character profile. We present an application of this model to create actors involved in social interactions in a virtual public garden. The animation of virtual actors is based on the library AGENTlib which is dedicated to the management of agent entities able to coordinate perception and action

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; computer animation; human factors; social sciences computing; virtual reality; agent entities; believability; character profile; homogenous group behaviors; interpersonal relationship; library AGENTlib; nonverbal communication model; perception; social interactions; virtual actors; virtual public garden; Animation; Communication system control; Computer graphics; Context; Humans; Layout; Libraries; Natural languages; Processor scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Animation '96. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Geneva

ISSN

1087-4844

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7588-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CA.1996.540488

Filename

540488