by Martina Megaro | Mar 17, 2019 | Story Technology, Visual Computing
StoryPrint: an Interactive Visualization of Stories In this paper, we propose StoryPrint, an interactive visual- ization of creative storytelling that facilitates individual and comparative structural analyses. March 17, 2019ACM Symposium on User Interface Software...
by Martina Megaro | Mar 13, 2019 | Animation, Story Technology, Visual Computing
Animating an Autonomous 3D Talking Avatar One of the main challenges with embodying an agent is annotating how and when motions can be played and composed together in real-time, without any visual artifact. March 13, 2019arxiv 2019 Authors Dominik Borer...
by Martina Megaro | Jan 16, 2019 | Robotics
The Role of Closed-Loop Hand Control in Handshaking Interactions In this paper we investigate the role of haptic feedback in human/robot handshaking by comparing different force controllers. January 16, 2019IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2019 ...
by Martina Megaro | Dec 16, 2018 | VFX, Visual Computing
Incremental Acquisition and Reuse of Multimodal Affective Behaviors in a Conversational Agent We explore a way to elicit and evaluate affective behavior using crowdsourcing. We show that untrained crowd workers are able to author content for a broad variety of...
by Martina Megaro | Dec 10, 2018 | AR/VR, Story Technology
A Two-Level Planning Framework for Mixed Reality Interactive Narratives with User Engagement We present an event-based interactive storytelling system for virtual 3D environments that aims to offer free-form user experiences while constraining the narrative to...
