Designing avatars

Boberg, Marion; Piippo, Petri; Ollila, Elina M. I.

doi:10.1145/1413634.1413679

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“…As one can see, this opens up the door to new ways of interacting and communicating, expanding the physical and mental capabilities of both surrogates and users. Research has explored the successful implementation of non-traditional surrogates in areas such as training (Chuah et al, 2013), education (Yamashita, Kuzuoka, Fujimon, & Hirose, 2007), and entertainment (Boberg, Piippo, & Ollila, 2008), yet the field is still in its infancy.…”

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Abstract.Research exploring the implementation of surrogates has included areas such as training (Chuah et al, 2013), education (Yamashita, Kuzuoka, Fujimon, & Hirose, 2007), and entertainment (Boberg, Piippo, & Ollila, 2008). Determining the characteristics of the surrogate that could potentially influence the human's behavioral responses during human-surrogate interactions is of importance.

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Good Enough Yet? A Preliminary Evaluation of Human-Surrogate Interaction

Abich

Reinerman-Jones

Matthews

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.Research exploring the implementation of surrogates has included areas such as training (Chuah et al., 2013), education (Yamashita, Kuzuoka, Fujimon, & Hirose, 2007), and entertainment (Boberg, Piippo, & Ollila, 2008). Determining the characteristics of the surrogate that could potentially influence the human's behavioral responses during human-surrogate interactions is of importance. The present work will draw on the literature about human-robot interaction (HRI), social psychology literature regarding the impact that the presence of a surrogate has on another human, and communications literature about human-human interpersonal interaction. The review will result in an experimental design to evaluate various dimensions of the space of humansurrogate characteristics influence on interaction.

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Good Enough Yet? A Preliminary Evaluation of Human-Surrogate Interaction

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Matthews

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…This allows for quite a variety that could be useful for a number of reasons such as self-representation, agent representation, or role-playing. It is unclear as to the extent that avatar customization is important to users, but there is certainly a great deal of effort put into this activity as well as thinking about the tools and types of customizations that should be available to users to perform the customizations (Boberg et al, 2008).…”

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Virtual Environments Overview

Stucky¹,

Shaw²,

Ark³

2009

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Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Washington Headquarters Service, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302, and ABSTRACTThis report provides a research-based schema called "A Framework for Designing with Virtual World Technologies". It is shown how, by using this framework, virtual world technologies can be used to radically transform how intelligence analysts encounter data, frame their stories, and review their analyses with both their customers and other analysts. The report explores what analysts can accomplish by doing some of their work in environments that can be created in virtual world platforms. There is no reason why the proposed framework wouldn't be applicable to blended reality solutions in which virtual world applications and real world applications are tightly integrated, or in which elements of virtual world technologies are integrated into more traditional software tools. We are enthusiastic about the possibilities that virtual world technologies make available, yet we do not want to suggest that the current crop (circa 2008-2009) can live up to current hype. Accordingly, we discuss later in the report a number of considerations that need to be taken into account. We are enthusiastic about the possibilities that virtual world technologies make available, yet we do not want to suggest that the current crop (circa 2008-2009) can live up to current hype. Accordingly, we discuss later in the paper a number of considerations that need to be taken into account. Certainly we (the authors) have seen in our two years of experience in designing virtual world environments that substantial time and effort can be devoted to efforts that do not offer clear advantages over more conventional means. It is this experience that has led us to think about how to design virtual world environments and experiences in a more rigorous and principled manner. SUBJECT TERMSThe framework we provide in this paper, while certainly not the only one imaginable, is intended to accomplish three goals.First, it provides a scheme for how to take advantage of the technologies provided by virtual world platforms to leverage innate human cognitive and perceptual architecture and the genuine social interaction that emerges in these worlds. There is substantial (we would argue, enough) evidence based on existing research to suggest that we may be able to reduce cognitive load and make multi-user computermediated interaction more fluid and intuitive. While this is essential to any analyst inundated with data, it is particularly acute for the intelligence analyst, who ...

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“…바타 캐릭터 [1]를 생성하는 기술들이 본격적으로 개발되 기 시작하면서 이를 바탕으로 3차원 아바타가 등장하는 게임 개발 또한 진입장벽이 낮아지고 있다 [2]. 특히 아바 타 생성을 위한 언어를 새로 정의하거나 [3,4] …”

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SoMA: A System of Making Avatars based on a Commercial Game Engine

Kim¹,

Roh²

2017

Journal of Digital Convergence

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We propose the SoMA(System of Making Avatars) based on a commercial 3D game engine. It first decomposes a given character into assemblable pieces, then gives the user them as prefab components so that he or she can reassemble and/or customize them to be plenty of characters. To accomplish this, it implements the character assembly structure as an hierarchy, the upper levels of which are categorized for gross assembly, and the lower levels of which are parameterized for detailed customization. It also defines a hierarchical naming convention for ease of access to the structure. Finally, it provides body, clothes, and attachment systems to make relevant characters.

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Designing avatars

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Good Enough Yet? A Preliminary Evaluation of Human-Surrogate Interaction

Good Enough Yet? A Preliminary Evaluation of Human-Surrogate Interaction

Virtual Environments Overview

SoMA: A System of Making Avatars based on a Commercial Game Engine

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