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A Virtual World Communication Framework Using Avatar Spatial Information  

Park, Soo-Hyun (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Ji, Seung-Hyun (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Ryu, Dong-Sung (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Cho, Hwan-Gue (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory / v.35, no.12, 2008 , pp. 552-559 More about this Journal
Abstract
Computing technologies are extending the means by which people communicate. Especially, virtual worlds have recently become successful, due to rapidly improving Information Technologies. Chat is a crucial function in current virtual worlds. We need a realistic and efficient communication framework for multi-agents participating in a virtual world. The main contribution of our work is twofold. First, we propose a realistic communication framework which enables 'Complete Talk' and 'Partial Talk' in terms of spatial relationships between avatar agents. Second, our system reconstructs a dialogue graph which maintains all transcripts in the form of directed graphs with temporal(dialogue sequences) and spatial information(physical positions) about communicating agents.
Keywords
3D Virtual World; Communication; Chat; Chat Flow Graph;
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