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Embodied Conversational Agent Using a Virtual Character to Induce Children's Verbal Communication (가상 캐릭터를 활용하여 아동의 구어 대화를 유도하는 대화형 에이전트)

  • Choi, Jiyeong;Jung, Keechul
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.1296-1306
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    • 2020
  • Childhood verbal communication impacts children's language skills and has a positive effect as partners use more vocabulary. But reduction in family time, caused by lowered age for private education and so on, has reduced the chance for children to speak with partners who have a proficient language skill. This vacancy was naturally occupied by the media, which has become one of the cornerstones of the growth of kids' contents. Kids contents are making various attempts to expand the breadth of services. But most contents still focus on unilateral visual information delivery yet, so there is a limit to satisfy the vacancy of conversation partners. Therefore this paper suggests an ECA(Embodied conversational agent) to induce children's spoken conversation using a virtual character frequently used in kids contents. This system is implemented by the voice bot and agent model produced using an IBM assistant and Unity. As a result of using ECA for 66 children of 5-9 years old, it showed meaningful results in terms of induction of verbal communication.

Inductive Inverse Kinematics Algorithm for the Natural Posture Control (자연스러운 자세 제어를 위한 귀납적 역운동학 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Bum-Ro;Chung, Chin-Hyun
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.367-375
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    • 2002
  • Inverse kinematics is a very useful method for control]ing the posture of an articulated body. In most inverse kinematics processes, the major matter of concern is not the posture of an articulated body itself but the position and direction of the end effector. In some applications such as 3D character animations, however, it is more important to generate an overall natural posture for the character rather than place the end effector in the exact position. Indeed, when an animator wants to modify the posture of a human-like 3D character with many physical constraints, he has to undergo considerable trial-and-error to generate a realistic posture for the character. In this paper, the Inductive Inverse Kinematics(IIK) algorithm using a Uniform Posture Map(UPM) is proposed to control the posture of a human-like 3D character. The proposed algorithm quantizes human behaviors without distortion to generate a UPM, and then generates a natural posture by searching the UPM. If necessary, the resulting posture could be compensated with a traditional Cyclic Coordinate Descent (CCD). The proposed method could be applied to produce 3D-character animations based on the key frame method, 3D games and virtual reality.

Using Maya Walking Motion Analysis in the Changing Environment of the Ground and Implement Realistic Character Animation (마야를 이용한 지형변화 환경에서의 보행동작 분석과 현실적 캐릭터 애니메이션 구현)

  • Yoon, Yeo-Geun;Song, Teuk-Seob
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.521-523
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    • 2012
  • In the field of virtual reality and game production with realistic, real-time character's behavior is frequently used. In this paper, the terrain changes or other actions on the surrounding environment by implementing adaptive any action that is the most natural and can be adapted to analyze real-time character animation is implemented. For this purpose, in order to control the various movements of the character of the human body, by highlighting the major joints Kinematic dummy character animation is to create a way. Changes in terrain height difference of the two stairs that could cause analysis of the behavior in the environment and the other on the surrounding environment by adapting behavior to analyze the behavior of the slope climbing Based on this, the character animation is implemented.

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Validation of G-HEXACO for Application to Game Character's Personality - Focusing on FIFA Online3- (온라인 게임 캐릭터에 성격을 적용하기 위한 G-HEXACO 타당화 연구: FIFA ONLINE3을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Mi-Sun;Ko, Il-Ju
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.7-18
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of the present study is to build a theoretical basis for game character that represents the various personalities and interacts with the other characters in the game, applying the HEXACO theory to game character. It is hard to use the HEXACO to the game because the HEXACO is a theory based on the real world, on the contrary, the game has features of the virtual reality. Therefore, the HEXACO needs to be converted to Game HEXACO(G-HEXACO) for applying personality factors to the game character. To achieve this, we surveyed the HEXACO-PI-R and game questions related with the HEXACO factors. On the basis of the results, we designed G-HEXACO. This study means that the HEXACO could be replaced with the G-HEXACO to applying personality factors to the game character.

Storytelling of Korean Virtual Reality Game Fiction (한국 가상현실 게임소설의 스토리텔링)

  • Kim, Hu-In;Lee, Minhee;Han, Hye-Won
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to analyze remediation of games and fictions in Korean virtual reality game fictions and to derive the storytelling of virtual reality game fictions through them. The purpose of this study is to explore the possibilities that Korean game fiction based on the web can be expanded as popular literature. The main character of the fiction is a male in his twenties. In the neoliberal society, he is set as a member of the neglected class and lacking privilege. He enters the virtual world because of the deficiency experienced in the real world. It minimizes the mediation process between the real world and the interface. On the other hand, the repetitive actions performed by the protagonist belong to the category of self - destructive labor. As a result, he shows signs of narcissism. In the Korean virtual reality game fiction, the magic circle appears blurred, and the real world and the virtual world are linked. In this process, the virtual world functions as a substitute space to solve the problem of reality. The establishment of such a space, and the resolution of conflicts are merely narrative characteristics of Korean game fictions that are different from North America and Europe.

A Basic Study on the Development of Autonomous Behavioral Agent based on Ontology Used in Virtual Space (가상공간에서 활용되는 온톨로지 기반 지능형 자율주행 에이전트 개발에 관한 기초 연구)

  • Lee, Yun-Gil
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.777-784
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    • 2017
  • In the architectural space, the user's behavior is the most important factor in evaluating the quality of architecture. Normally, the evaluation of user behavioral performance was carried out after a building was completed. Recently, interest in and efforts at pre-simulation based on information technology are accelerating. However, since existing user simulation technology is concerned mainly with simply escaping from a large space, it is impossible to simulate the behavior of multiple users in an architectural space. The present study strives to develop a human-figured intelligent agent for advanced user simulation based on ontology. The main purpose of the study is to employ the intelligent behaviors of a NPC(Non-player Character) to infer the ontology of both spatial and user information. In this paper, we intend to integrate ontology inference technology into the virtual space. And also, this study suggest the ontology visualization technology which illustrate the ontology-based information and their change in the spatial information.

Research and development of haptic simulator for Dental education using Virtual reality and User motion

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.52-57
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this paper is to develop simulations that can be used for virtual education in dentistry. The virtual education to be developed will be developed with clinical training and actual case data of tooth extraction. This development goal is to allow dental students to learn the necessary surgical techniques at the point of their choice, not going into the operating room, away from time, space, and physical limits. I want to develop content using VR. Oculus Rift HMD, Optical Based Outside-in Tracking System, Oculus Touch Motion Controller, and Headset as Input / Output Device. In this configuration, the optimization method is applied convergent, and when the operation of the VR contents is performed, the content data is extracted from the interaction analysis formed in the VR engine, and the data is processed by the content algorithm. It also computes events and dental operations generated within the 3D engine programming and generates corresponding events through data processing according to the input signal. The visualization information is output to the HMD using the rendering information. In addition, the operating room environment was constructed by studying lighting and material for actual operating room environment. We applied the ratio of actual space to virtual space and the ratio between character and actual person to create a spatial composition at a similar rate to actual space.

Study the graft method related to the design of monster character in games (게임 괴물 캐릭터 조형의 접목 방법에 대한 연구)

  • Sun, Shu-Ping;Lee, Dong-Lyeor
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.357-364
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    • 2015
  • Because of the unique images of monsters and people curious about the unknown things in the game, gamers escape from ordinary life to explore a whole new world of games in the virtual space. Gamers monster while dealing with characters that are not in the real world, I feel the joy and freshness, much to the popularity of these unique characters are gamers. Is the study of the game Monster character to now is still food that fell short, there is currently many games with the simple design by limiting the monster character design for simple figurative design in the characters monster representation of the figurative simple character designs is fulfilling the week The feed. To analyze the convergence of the monster character design in various ways and to apply the formative apply thoughtful design of the monster characters. This study combines research with a multidisciplinary approach based on the traditional image of the monster character image.

3D Animation Character Development Pipeline using 3D Printing (3차원 프린팅을 활용한 3차원 애니메이션 캐릭터 개발 파이프라인)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Ho;Lee, Jeongjin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.52-59
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    • 2013
  • Recently, the importance of the efficient production pipeline design has been increased for 3D animation, which becomes more delicate. In this paper, we propose 3D animation character development pipeline using 3D printing technology. We introduce 3D printing procedure into each step of the classical 3D animation and character development pipeline to incorporate the feed-back from the designer immediately. Specially, during the production step, we can find the design errors and minimize the period of production by using 3D printing of approximate shape of designed character. Using proposed method, eight DreaMegg characters were developed and their quality was very high with respect to 3D virtual graphics and real product. Using our method, high-quality 3D animation character can be developed with the minimized time and cost for development by reflecting the feed-back into production line from designers and researchers immediately.

On-Line Korean Character Recognition by the Stroke Information of Korean Phoneme in Multimedia Terminal (한글 자소의 획 정보에 의한 멀티미디어 단말기에서의 온라인 한글 문자 인식)

  • Oh Juntaek;Jung Momoon;Lee Woobeom;Kim Wookhyun
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.64-73
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    • 2000
  • The Korean character recognition technology for user interface in multimedia terminal requires fast processing time and high recognition rate. In this paper, we propose an phoneme and character recognition technology which uses characteristic information of korean and features of input strokes, i.e, feature point, feature vector, virtual vector, position relation between strokes. And, a recognition both phoneme and character by the various writing types of users uses korean database. The Korean database has been constructed by the characteristic information of korean and phoneme models which have various stroke information. Also, we use successive processing by the position relation between strokes and backtracking processing by the modification processing of stroke numbers which composed of each phoneme. This method reduces the complex processing of phoneme separation. The proposed on-line korean character recognition system has obtained 13msec average character processing time and correct recognition rate more than $95{\%}$ In a recognition experiment, where we tested 600 characters written by 10 people among 1,200 words.

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