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A Platform for Building Mobile Virtual Humans

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“A Platform for Building Mobile Virtual Humans”
Andrew Feng, Anton Leuski, Stacy Marsella, Dan Casas, Sin-hwa Kang, Ari Shapiro
Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 310-319, Springer International Publishing, 2015

A preprint of the paper can be found here:

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The paper describes a platform for building conversational virtual humans on mobile devices. The goal of of the work is to lower the barrier of entry of virtual humans on mobile devices. Whereas game systems are often focused on rendering, particle effects and navigation among large spaces, a conversational virtual human requires attention to subtle nuances of conversation and personal movement.