An NVC Emotional Model for Conversational Virtual Humans in a 3D Chatting Environment
This paper proposes a new emotional model for Virtual Humans (VHs) in a conversational environment. As a part of a multi-users emotional 3D-chatting system, this paper focus on how to formulate and visualize the flow of emotional state defined by the Valence-Arousal-Dominance (VAD) parameters. From this flow of emotion over time, we successfully visualized the change of VHs’ emotional state through the proposed emoFaces and emoMotions. The notion of Non-Verbal Communication (NVC) was exploited for driving plausible emotional expressions during conversation. With the help of a proposed interface, where a user can parameterize emotional state and flow, we succeeded to vary the emotional expressions and reactions of VHs in a 3D conversation scene.
2012
Berlin, Heidelberg
978-3-642-31566-4
Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 7378
47
57
REVIEWED
EPFL
Event name | Event place | Event date |
Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain | July 11-13, 2012 | |