LJ-009 Building Active Conversation Environment for Edutainment

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Generating composite human motion such as locomotion and gesture is important for interactive applications, such as interactive education and computer games. In interactive educational environments, characters do not merely stand in one position, they should be able to compose gestures and locomotion based on the discourse of the topic and related object locations in the scene. Thus in this paper, we propose a conversational locomotion model for virtual characters. We constructed a conversational locomotion network for a virtual environment. A multi-pass searching algorithm calculates the optimal walking path, which uses node activation from the story locations and conversation units. The character also locally adjusts its position so that it does not limit the referenced object from the player's sight. We have applied our technique to the education for the disaster prevention application, and demonstrated the composite motion of the character's locomotion and conversation thus strengthens the immersion and enhances the learning effect in the educational environment.
FIT(電子情報通信学会・情報処理学会)推進委員会の論文
2005-08-22