Understanding Virtual Actors

Abstract

Autonomous Digital Actors represent the next step in authoring movies with believable characters, in a way that will allow them to be trained for acting specific roles in a story, suggesting appropriate behaviors during their performance. This article presents an overview of the art of acting and directing and how these concepts were used to elaborate a Virtual Actor metaphor. Also, we present an agent architecture for describing and implementing the virtual actors' acting knowledge base.

The long-term user experience of an m-Health application

“…Providing simple and easy-to-use applications is a fundamental strategy for positive experiences in using the solution and, consequently, for user engagement (Silva et al, 2018). Many participants affirmed that the application presents easy and intuitive questions, which made it possible to use it with little explanation.…”

“…Some studies show that voice interaction is a viable option for efficiency, ease of use and understanding, in addition to utility (Kim, 2021;Kowalski et al, 2019;O'Brien et al, 2020;Ziman;Walsh, 2018) and can be an alternative for the easier insertion of health-related data. The simplicity of the application is a crucial factor, because when it comes to the elderly user, the simpler it is to enter the information, the more interesting the application becomes (Silva et al, 2018).…”