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Planning Motions for Virtual Demonstrators

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In order to deliver information effectively, virtual human demonstrators must be able to address complex spatial constraints and at the same time replicate motion coordination patterns observed in human-human interactions. We introduce in this paper a whole-body motion planning and synthesis framework that coordinates locomotion, body positioning, action execution and gaze behavior for generic demonstration tasks among obstacles.

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  1. University of California, Merced, USA

    Yazhou Huang & Marcelo Kallmann

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Huang, Y., Kallmann, M. (2014). Planning Motions for Virtual Demonstrators. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_24

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