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Technological advances have a tremendous impact on everyone’s life and are interwoven into everything we do. The computer was a significant invention in the last century, which has quietly transformed and morphed into many devices that have rapidly become indispensable to our daily life, such as phones, cameras, TVs, and autonomous vehicles.

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Part of the research described in this book is supported by the BeingTogether Centre, a collaboration between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. The BeingTogether Centre is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its International Research Centres in Singapore Funding Initiative.

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Magnenat Thalmann, N., Zhang, J.J., Ramanathan, M., Thalmann, D. (2021). Introduction. In: Thalmann, N.M., Zhang, J.J., Ramanathan, M., Thalmann, D. (eds) Intelligent Scene Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71002-6_1

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