Heroes, Villains, Magicians, ...: Believable Characters in a Story Creation Environment
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This paper presents an initial study undertaken with the goal of building believable synthetic characters that will inhabit a collaborative 3D story creation environment for young children (7-9 years old). Our aim is to develop such characters in a manner that children will be able to manipulate and direct their characters as if they were performing their characters’ roles themselves and at the same time, the characters can act autonomously.
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