Communicating Multimodal Information on the WWW Using a Lifelike, Animated 3D Agent
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In this paper we present a 3D animated agent with synthesized face, speech and behavior, which is capable of automatic motion generation with a little user support of text annotation. Users without artistic skills are also capable of easy creation and extension of their own agents with tailor-made appearance and motion. Its implementation and compact size allows for easy use on the Internet as novel multimodal communication tools, which is demonstrated by two applications, namely the MPML and the 3D Chat project.
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