Character Building Based on Local Culture

Building character.

life – developing caring, positive relationships; learning and educating ourselves; planning for the future – are underpinned by character capabilities such as empathy, application and emotional control. Far from being ‘soft’ skills, the capabilities that make up our character are vital for social mobility. We shape and strengthen our character throughout life, but the critical years are the ea...

Conformist or Deviant: Children's Character Problems and Local Culture.

Character Processing Based on Character Ontology

We use characters as a basis for data representation in computers, and as a tool for communication over computer networks. Computer programs are made of characters, we exchange mails that are sequences of characters, and many of the contents available over the Internet are realized in the form of characters. Currently, in the field of information processing, characters are defined and shared us...

Building a Character Animation System

We describe a system for animating virtual characters that encompasses many important aspects of character modeling for simulations and games. These include locomotion, facial animation, speech synthesis, reaching/grabbing, and various automated non-verbal behaviors, such as nodding, gesturing and eye saccades. Our system implements aspects of character animation from the research community tha...

Character , Global and Local

Philosophers have recently argued that we should revise our understanding of character. An individual’s behaviour is governed not by a set of ‘global’ traits, each elicited by a certain kind of situational feature, but by a much larger array of ‘local’ traits, each elicited by a certain combination of situational features. The data cited by these philosophers supports their theory only if we co...