Papers for student seminars

Allocation of people to papers and guide to presentation

1. The EMOTE Model for Effort and Shape, Diane Chi, Monica Costa, Liwei Zhao, Norman Badler

2. Computational Model of Believable Conversational Agents, Catherine Pelachaud

3. Evaluating Users' Experience of a Character-Enhanced Information Space, Kristina Hook, Per Persson, Marie Sjolinder

4. Tears and Fears: Modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella

5. Automatic Real-Time Extraction of Musical Expression. Anders Friberg, Erwin Schoonderwald, Patrik Juslin & Roberto Bresin .

Some interesting links

• Ros Picard's Affective Computing Group at MIT
• Parametrized Action Representation of Norman Badler
• Behaviour Markup Language - an attempt at a standard for driving graphical virtual humans
• The EyesWeb software used for the Expressive Dancer

Lectures

1. Introduction and overview(slides)
   • The HUMAINE Association
2. Affective ouput - 1 (slides)
   • A good discussion of the problems with Russell's classification of emotions
   • A Automatic Real-Time Extraction of Musical Expression, A Friberg, E Schoonderwaldt, PN Juslin, R Bresin - Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2002
   • Ringtones with emotion
3. Affective output - 2(slides)
   • Ken Perlin's expressive face
   • Papers on GRETA
   • Tutorial from 2000 on Intelligent Muli-Media Agents
4. Affective inputs - 1 (slides)
   • Affective computing at Augsburg
   • The Wild Devine game
   • The ICANN 2006 workshop on emotion recognition with download of presentations
5. Affective inputs - 2 (slides)
   • Recognising emotion in speech in Mandarin
6. Affective models - 1 (slides)
   • USC Insitute for Creative Technologies
7. Student presentations
8. Affective models - 2 (slides)
   • The PSI model
9. Evaluation - 1 (slides)
   • Papers from the CHI '05 Workshop Evaluating Affective Interfaces
   • Description of Cultural Probes
   • Microsoft Agent
   • Content Paradise - graphical characters
10. Evaluation - 2 (slides in the file for the previous lecture)
    • The SUEDE WoZ speech software
    • Paper on the Theory of fun in games and life
    • Lomography as a user-centred design approach
11. Case study - 1 FearNot!(slides)
    • eCIRCUS, the project producing FearNot!
    • The sourceforge website where you can download FearNot!
12. Case study - 2 The Affective Guide(slides)
    • The Affective Guide
    • Terminal Time
    • A paper on Terminal Time
13. Student project ideas (slides)
14. Conclusions, open research issues (slides)