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FreeWalk/Q: social interaction platform in virtual space

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Hideyuki Nakanishi,

Toru IshidaAuthors Info & Claims

VRST '04: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

Pages 97 - 104

https://doi.org/10.1145/1077534.1077552

Published: 10 November 2004 Publication History

Abstract

We have integrated technologies related to virtual social interaction, e.g. virtual environments, visual simulations, and lifelike characters. In our previous efforts to integrate them, the asymmetry between agents and avatars made the systems too complex to be used widely. Another crucial problem we faced is that it took a long time to construct agents that play various roles, since each role needs its specific behavioral repertory. To eliminate these problems, we developed a general-use platform, FreeWalk/Q, in which agents and avatars can share the same interaction model and scenario. We created a control mechanism to reduce the behavioral differences between agents and avatars, and a description method to design the external role rather than the internal mechanism. In the development, we found that it was necessary to prepare several topologies of control mechanism and several granular levels of description method.

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FreeWalk/Q: social interaction platform in virtual space
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
      1. Synchronous editors
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
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VRST '04: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

November 2004

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ISBN:1581139071

DOI:10.1145/1077534

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City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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