Virtual Interaction: Interaction in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction — Welcome into the Interface

   1. Introduction — Welcome into the Interface

      • Lars Qvortrup

      Pages 1-18

3. Avatars and Agents in Computerized Theatre

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-22

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   2. Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds: Interactivity and Interaction Between Avatars, Autonomous Agents and Users

      • Jens F. Jensen

      Pages 23-47

   3. Three Types of Multimedia Interactions — and Beyond

      • Peer Mylov

      Pages 48-75

   4. Uses of Theatre as Model: Discussing Computers as Theatre — Some Additional Perspectives

      • Torunn Kjølner, Niels Lehmann

      Pages 76-93

4. Construction of Interactive Lifelike Agents and Actors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-99

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   2. Agents: Dependent Autonomy and Transparent Automatons?

      • Michael Mogensen

      Pages 101-118

   3. Enhancing the Usefulness of Community Chat Rooms: Application of Autonomous Agents

      • Mikael B. Skov

      Pages 119-131

   4. Agents as Actors

      • Peter Bøgh Andersen, Jørgen Callesen

      Pages 132-165

   5. Games and Stories

      • M. Wibroe, K. K. Nygaard, P. Bøgh Andersen

      Pages 166-181

   6. Aspects of Interactive Autonomy and Perception

      • Claus B. Madsen, Erik Granum

      Pages 182-208

   7. Discussion

      • P. Bøgh Andersen, Claus B. Madsen, Erik Granum

      Pages 209-213

5. Verbal and Non-Verbal Interaction with Virtual Worlds and Agents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-220

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   2. Interacting with a Virtual World Through Motion Capture

      • Thomas B. Moeslund

      Pages 221-234

   3. Linguistic Interaction in Staging — a Language Engineering View

      • Patrizia Paggio, Bradley Music

      Pages 235-249

   4. Exploiting Recent Research on Dialogue to Model Verbal Communication in Staging

      • Costanza Navarretta

      Pages 250-267

   5. Narratives: Different Narratives, Different Theories for Different Media?

      • Søren Kolstrup

      Pages 275-291

6. Interactive Narratives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-274

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   2. The Limits of Narration

      • Jørgen Stigel

      Pages 292-310

Lars Qvortrup The world of interactive 3D multimedia is a cross-institutional world. Here, researchers from media studies, linguistics, dramaturgy, media technology, 3D modelling, robotics, computer science, sociology etc. etc. meet. In order not to create a new tower of Babel, it is important to develop a set of common concepts and references. This is the aim of the first section of the book. In Chapter 2, Jens F. Jensen identifies the roots of interaction and interactivity in media studies, literature studies and computer science, and presents definitions of interaction as something going on among agents and agents and objects, and of interactivity as a property of media supporting interaction. Similarly, he makes a classification of human users, avatars, autonomous agents and objects, demon­ strating that no universal differences can be made. We are dealing with a continuum. While Jensen approaches these categories from a semiotic point of view, in Chapter 3 Peer Mylov discusses similar isues from a psychological point of view. Seen from the user's perspective, a basic difference is that between stage and back-stage (or rather: front-stage), i. e. between the real "I" and "we" and the virtual, representational "I" and "we". Focusing on the computer as a stage, in Chapter 4 Kj0lner and Lehmann use the theatre metaphor to conceptualize the stage phenomena and the relationship between stage and front-stage.

• 3D
• Design
• Interaction
• Interactive Multimedia
• Interface
• Internet
• Motion Capture
• Virtual 3D World
• computer
• interactive system
• multimedia
• multimedia system
• multimedia systems
• perception
• simulation

• Department of Literature, Culture and Media, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

  Lars Qvortrup

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