Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters

1.Introduction to this Collection By Joshua Tanenbaum 2. Author and Editor Bios Section I – Introduction to the History and Theory of NVC for VWs 3.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in the Physical World By Joshua Tanenbaum, Michael Nixon, and Magy Seif El-Nasr 4.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in...

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Main Author: Joshua Tanenbaum
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1184/r1/6686861.v1
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Summary:1.Introduction to this Collection By Joshua Tanenbaum 2. Author and Editor Bios Section I – Introduction to the History and Theory of NVC for VWs 3.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in the Physical World By Joshua Tanenbaum, Michael Nixon, and Magy Seif El-Nasr 4.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds By Joshua Tanenbaum, Michael Nixon, and Magy Seif El-Nasr Section II – Identity and Communication in Virtual Worlds 5. Our Empathic Experience of Believable Characters By Leslie Bishko 6.Virtual Gaze: The Communicative Energy Between Avatar Faces By Jeffrey Ventrella 7.Avatar Appearance as Prima Facie Non-Verbal Communication By Jacquelyn Ford Mori 8.TimeTraveller™: First Nations Nonverbal Communication in Second Life By Elizabeth LaPensée and Jason Edward Lewis Section III – Virtual Performance and Theate r 9. Lessons from the Arts: What the Performing Arts Literature Can TeachUs About Creating Expressive Character Movement By Michael Neff 10. Theater as Virtual Reality By Jim R. Parker 11. Animation Principles and Laban Movement Analysis: Movement Frameworks for Creating Empathic Character Performances By Leslie Bishko 12. Loss of Agency as Expression in Avatar Performance By Ben Unterman and Jeremy Owen Turner Section IV – Animating and Puppeteering 13. Empathy in virtual worlds: Making characters believablewith Laban Movement Analysis By Leslie Bishko 14. Avatar Puppeteering: Direct Manipulation of Avatar Jointsfor Spontaneous Body Language By Jeffrey Ventrella 15. Automation of Avatar Behavior By Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson 16.Synthesizing Virtual Character Behaviors fromInteractive Digital Puppetry By Elena Erbiceanu, Daniel Mapes, and Charles E. Hughes Section V –Studying Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds 17. A Few Choice Animations: Nonverbal Communication Through Production and Consumption in Second Life By Jennifer Martin 18.A Microsociological Perspective on Non-Verbal Communicative Strategies in MMORPGs By David Kirschner and J. Patrick Williams 19.The Uncanny Valley and Nonverbal ...