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INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is developing experience learning systems that incorporate virtual humans, high resolution graphics, and immersive audio with interactive stories. To this end the ICT is working in collaboration with IMSC to develop the immersive audio capability and with ISI to develop more realistic behavior models for the virtual humans, who can play the roles of characters and coaches in the scenarios. The current research includes the modeling of emotion, perceptual attention and gaze, natural language understanding to support interactive dialogue, and the integration of these components in an animated body with an expressive face. There is also a strong connection to graphics research as we seek to create simulations with highly realistic scenes, human bodies and faces. ICT has a graphics group, which will collaborate with computer science, IMSC, and the School of Cinema-Television. We anticipate that future research at ICT will also focus on the development of networked versions of these simulations, thus there will be a need to investigate network technologies and high performance computing to support scenarios with large numbers of virtual humans.
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