Developing Educational and Entertaining Virtual Humans using Elckerlyc

Reidsma, Dennis and Welbergen van, Herwin and Paul, Ronald C. and Laar van de, Bram and Nijholt, Anton (2010) Developing Educational and Entertaining Virtual Humans using Elckerlyc. In: 9th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2010, 8-11 September 2010, Seoul, Korea.

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Abstract:	Virtual humans (VHs) are used in many educational and entertainment settings: training and serious gaming, interactive information kiosks, tour guides, tutoring, interactive virtual dancers, and much more. Building a complete VH from scratch is a daunting task, and it makes sense to rely on existing platforms. However, when one builds a novel interactive VH application, one needs to be able to adapt and extend the means to control the VH offered by the platform, without reprogramming parts of the platform. This paper describes Elckerlyc, a novel platform for controlling a VH. The focus is on how to easily extend and adapt the system to the needs of a particular application, without programming.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2010 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72719
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15399-0_77
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