TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual reflexes
AU - Jonker, Catholijn M.
AU - Broekens, Joost
AU - Plaat, Aske
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Virtual Reality is used successfully to treat people for regular phobias. A new challenge is to develop Virtual Reality Exposure Training for social skills. Virtual actors in such systems have to show appropriate social behavior including emotions, gaze, and keeping distance. The behavior must be realistic and real-time. Current approaches are usually based on heavy information processing in terms of behavior planning, scripting of behavior and use of predefined animations. We believe this limits the directness of human bodily reflexes and causes unrealistic responses and delay. We propose to investigate virtual reflexes as concurrent sensory-motor processes to control individual parts of the virtual actor's skeleton with a body integrity model that keeps the effects coherent. We explain how emotion and cognitive modulation could be embedded, and give an example description of the interplay between emotion and a reflex. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
AB - Virtual Reality is used successfully to treat people for regular phobias. A new challenge is to develop Virtual Reality Exposure Training for social skills. Virtual actors in such systems have to show appropriate social behavior including emotions, gaze, and keeping distance. The behavior must be realistic and real-time. Current approaches are usually based on heavy information processing in terms of behavior planning, scripting of behavior and use of predefined animations. We believe this limits the directness of human bodily reflexes and causes unrealistic responses and delay. We propose to investigate virtual reflexes as concurrent sensory-motor processes to control individual parts of the virtual actor's skeleton with a body integrity model that keeps the effects coherent. We explain how emotion and cognitive modulation could be embedded, and give an example description of the interplay between emotion and a reflex. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84906483106
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_28
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319097664
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 222
EP - 231
BT - Intelligent Virtual Agents - 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2014
Y2 - 27 August 2014 through 29 August 2014
ER -