Title :
The virtual human as a multimodal interface
Author :
Thalmann, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Comput. Graphics Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
This paper discusses the main issues for creating interactive virtual environments with virtual humans emphasizing the following aspects: creation of virtual humans, gestures, interaction with objects, multimodal communication.
Keywords :
gesture recognition; human computer interaction; speech recognition; virtual reality; gestures; multimodal communication; multimodal interface; virtual human; Animation; Computer graphics; Humans; Joints; Shape; Skeleton; Skin; Speech; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging, 2002. 5th IEEE EMBS International Summer School on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7507-6
DOI :
10.1109/SSBI.2002.1233992