EMBR: A realtime animation engine for interactive embodied agents

Author

Heloir, Alexis ; Kipp, Michael

Author_Institution

DFKI, Embodied Agents Res. Group, Saarbrucken, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Embodied agents can be powerful interface devices and versatile research tools for the study of emotion, gesture, facial expression etc. However, they require high effort and expertise for their creation, assembly and animation control. Therefore, open animation engines and high-level control languages are required to make embodied agents accessible to researchers and developers. In this demo paper, we present such an engine called EMBR (embodied agents behavior realizer) and its control language EMBRScript.

Keywords

computer animation; multi-agent systems; real-time systems; user interfaces; EMBRScript; animation control; embodied agents behavior realizer; emotion recognition; facial expression; gesture recogntion; high-level control languages; interactive embodied agents; interface devices; realtime animation engine; research tools; Animation; Assembly; Broadcasting; Engines; Markup languages; Robustness; Runtime; Specification languages; Terminology; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, 2009. ACII 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4800-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4799-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACII.2009.5349524

Filename

5349524