Konstantinos Chorianopoulos Technical University of Crete Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Chania 731 00 GREECE [email protected] Abstract Animated characters have been a popular research theme, but the respective desktop applications have not been well-received by end-users. The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of an animated character for presenting information ...

Chinese has become one of the most popular foreign languages in K-12 classrooms and colleges in the US. However, it is considered hard-to-learn due to its difficult characters. We created the computer-based Chinese character learning (CCL) program using the embodied animations (EA), which are the animations that contain bodily movements or gestures in videos. The empirical study investigated wh...

To recognize characters in scene images, a character segmentation method is generally required for pre-processing. However, there are problems that traditional methods are not able to segment “isolated character” which does not constitute a character string and “touching character” which is connected to other characters. Moreover, it is known that character images in scene images suffer from pe...

The realistic physical modelling of characters in games and virtual worlds is becoming a viable alternative to more traditional animation techniques. Physical modelling can enhance realism and allow users to interact with the world much more freely. However, designing controllers to move physically modelled characters (e.g. to make a human character walk) is generally a difficult task. Artifici...

We present Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS), a neural network that learns to transcribe speech utterances to characters. Unlike traditional DNN-HMM models, this model learns all the components of a speech recognizer jointly. Our system has two components: a listener and a speller. The listener is a pyramidal recurrent network encoder that accepts filter bank spectra as inputs. The speller is an a...

To recognize characters in scene images, a character segmentation method is generally required for pre-processing. However, there are problems that traditional methods are not able to segment “isolated character” which does not constitute a character string and “touching character” which is connected to other characters. Moreover, it is known that character images in scene images suffer from pe...

As the video games industry grows and video games become more part of our lives, we are eager for better gaming experiences. One field in which games still have much to gain is in Non-Player Character behavior in socially demanding games, like Role-Playing Games. In Role-Playing Games players have to interact constantly with very simple Non-Player Characters, with no social behavior in most of ...

Traditional storytelling media, such as the novel, cinema, and television, draw much of their emotional power from characters and story. The greatest impact of interactive media will arise only when they too exhibit these characteristics. However, rich interactive characters and rich interactive story are unfamiliar concepts. The Oz Project is trying to bring together writers, artists, and arti...

The present work seeks to make the logographic nature of Chinese script a relevant research ground in wordnet studies. While wordnets are not so much about words as about the concepts represented in words, synset formation inevitably involves the use of orthographic and/or phonetic representations to serve as headword for a given concept. For wordnets of Chinese languages, if their synsets are ...