The continuously increasing complexity of computer animations makes it necessary to rely on the knowledge of various experts to cover the different areas of computer graphics and animation. This fact, which can be noted in many areas of scientific working, leads to increasing effort being put into research concerning cooperative working over the internet. However, it still requires substantiale...

Prosociality emerges early in ontogeny, but the mechanisms driving its early-emergence are not well understood. We propose that the experience of choice is tied to the expression of children’s prosocial behavior. In Experiment 1, preschoolers shared with a puppet by either making a Costly Choice (giving a resource they could have kept for themselves), Non-Costly Choice (giving a resource that w...

animation, in its shape and content, originates from imagination; its most important characteristic is the actualization or materialization of endless imaginations. the art of animation, when its variety of techniques and attractiveness is considered, is warmly accepted by a wide range of audiences across the globe. with the emergence of television and its serious need for this art, animations ...

A novel approach is presented for generating VRML animation sequences from Sign Language notation, based on MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation. Sign Language notation, in the well-known SignWriting system, is provided as input and initially converted to SWML (SignWriting Markup Language), an XML-based format that has recently been developed for the storage, indexing, and processing of SignWriting n...

This screenplay project focuses on cyberbullying's impacts its victims, both mentally and physically. The goal is to shed light into this action of crime that often overlooked, make a better cyberspace environment, raise awareness the public, especially cyberbullying perpetrators, stop what they are doing. To do so, creative thesis uses concept points out how bullying can trigger paranoia depre...