The use of emotionally expressive avatars in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Emotionally expressive avatars for collaborative virtual environments

Face Value: Towards Emotionally Expressive Avatars

This paper investigates how inhabitants of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) can communicate with each other through channels other than speech, and it is primarily concerned with the perception of facial expressions of emotion in CVEs. We outline our experimental work on emotion recognition and investigate to what extent findings from real life socio-psychological research can be appli...

Emotionally Expressive Avatars for Chatting, Learning and Therapeutic Intervention

We present our work on emotionally expressive avatars, animated virtual characters that can express emotions via facial expressions. Because these avatars are highly distinctive and easily recognizable, they may be used in a range of applications. In the first part of the paper we present their use in computer mediated communication where two or more people meet in virtual space, each represent...

Commedia Virtuale: Theatre Inspiration for Expressive Avatars

We are investigating face, hand and body expressions to be applied to avatars of a virtual environment to improve their communication capabilities and enrich and facilitate their perception by users of the environment . We support the idea that avatars have to be designed in such a way as to express state of mind, mood and emotions that are easily understood by the users of the environment. We ...

Embodied in a Metaverse: “Anatomia” and “body parts”

In this paper, the artist/author wishes to examine corporeality in the virtual realm, through the usage of the (non)-physical body of the avatar. Two sister art installations created in the virtual world of Second Life®, both of which are meant to be accessed with site specific avatars, will provide the creative platform whereby this investigation is undertaken. While the installation “Anatomia...