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This paper presents a framework for crowd modeling that produces socially plausible animation behaviors. Our high-level behavioral model is able to produce appropriate animated behavior that includes synchronized body-orientation and gesture of individual actors within the simulation. Because the model operationalizes a well-founded social-linguistic Common Ground (CG) theory of human interaction, the behavior chains form meaningful interactions among the actors. The model includes micro-behaviors relating to CG theory, and macro-behavior relating to the animation context. This allows reuse of the micro-behaviors as animation contexts change and flexible adaptation to different animation contexts.
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Park, S.I., Peng, C., Quek, F., Cao, Y. (2012). A Crowd Modeling Framework for Socially Plausible Animation Behaviors. In: Kallmann, M., Bekris, K. (eds) Motion in Games. MIG 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34710-8_14
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