We describe an implemented system that anticipates user instructions in a collaborative construction task in virtual reality. The functionality of the system is embodied by an anthropomorphic interface agent and enables the usage of functional names for pieces of an uncompleted target aggregate in natural language instructions. Based on an internal model of the construction state and salience r...

This paper describes an approach for the generation of multimodal deixis to be uttered by an anthropomorphic agent in virtual reality. The proposed algorithm integrates pointing and definite description. Doing so, the context-dependent discriminatory power of the gesture determines the contentselection for the verbal constituent. The concept of a pointing cone is used to model the region single...

In this paper an operational model for the automatic generation of lifelike gestures of an anthropomorphic virtual agent is described. The biologically motivated approach to controlling the movements of a highly articulated figure provides a transformation of spatiotemporal gesture specifications into an analog representation of the movement from which the animations are directly rendered. To t...

In this paper we illustrate the properties and the morphology of a human like neural reflex controller, used to set the stiffness and joint positions of an anthropomorphic artificial hand. In particular we explain, by simulations results, its ability to emulate the myotatic human reflex, and its capacity to learn in real time the best control strategy. We also present the dynamic model of the j...

Cartoons on television are a platform for gender representation because of their varied content. It is observed evidence that cartoons hold more dominant role over the centuries. The stereotyped in animated programs affects viewers, particularly young children, variety ways. purpose this study to analyze how anthropomorphic characters promote masculinity Indian cartoons. character comparison wa...

D06 – Scalable object recognition and semi-autonomous object learning with an anthropomorphic robot head,