Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from
immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping …

We present ADAPT, a flexible platform for designing and authoring functional, purposeful
human characters in a rich virtual environment. Our framework incorporates character …

Improv is a system for the creation of real− time behavior− based animated actors. There
have been several recent efforts to build network distributed autonomous agents. But in …

Current approaches to authoring behavior and dialogue for agents that interact with humans
in virtual environments are labor intensive, yet often yield less robust results than desired in …

We are studying how to create believable agents that perform actions and use natural
language in interactive, animated, real-time worlds. Believable agents are autonomous …

Humans are social creatures. Much of our intelligence derives from our ability to manipulate
our environment through collaborative endeavors. Most extant computer programs and …

In this paper, we introduce a toolkit called SceneMaker for authoring scenes for adaptive,
interactive performances. These performances are based on automatically generated and …

In the traditional character-based arts of film, books, animation, or theater, the audience is
presented with vivid, powerful, personality-rich characters such as Rick from Casablanca or …

Smart avatars are virtual human representations controlled by real people. Given
instructions interactively, smart avatars can act as autonomous or reactive agents. During a …

We describe an implemented system which automatically generates and animates
conversations between multiple human-like agents with appropriate and synchronized …