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International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming

CSCLP 2003: Recent Advances in Constraints pp 266–284Cite as

Gestures for Embodied Agents with Logic Programming

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The paper discusses how distributed logic programming can be used to define and control the hand gestures of embodied agents in virtual worlds, by using the STEP language as an interface between the constructs of logic programming and the humanoid model defined in Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML). By using this framework, different gesture dictionaries can be defined and variants of a hand gesture, according to dynamically changing factors, can be generated on the fly. The approach is tested on the demanding demonstrator of conducting, providing experience, also on time performance of the animation.

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  1. Center for Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Zsòfia Ruttkay

  2. Intelligent Multimedia Group, Division of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Zhisheng Huang & Anton Eliens

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  1. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Krzysztof R. Apt

  2. Projet Contraintes, INRIA Rocquencourt, BP105, 78153, Domaine de Voluceau, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    François Fages

  3. Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Padova, Via Trieste 63, 35121, Padova, Italy

    Francesca Rossi

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, H-1117, Hungary, Budapest

    Péter Szeredi

  5. Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende u. 13-17, 1111, Budapest, Hungary

    Josef Váncza

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Ruttkay, Z., Huang, Z., Eliens, A. (2004). Gestures for Embodied Agents with Logic Programming. In: Apt, K.R., Fages, F., Rossi, F., Szeredi, P., Váncza, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Constraints. CSCLP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24662-6_15

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