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Bruce Blumberg
Bill Tomlinson
Michael Patrick Johnson
Song-Yee Yoon
Marc Downie
Ari Benbasat
Jed Wahl
Dan Stiehl
Delphine Nain
Wally Holland
Matt Berlin
Dr. Joseph Paradiso

 
     

The installation, located in the Millennium Motel area of SIGGRAPH99, explores interactions between autonomous and directable characters in a virtual space, and users in the physical space. Through our "buns and forks" interface, users can communicate with the virtual characters in an ever-changing social environment. The group's aim is to build characters which come alive in the eyes, ears, and hands of the user -- in short, characters with minds of their own. By investing virtual characters with commonsense knowledge and letting their emotional states and personal motivations govern their actions, we can produce lifelike behavior which conveys feeling and intelligence.


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Projects
 
2002-2003
Dobie T. Coyote
 
2001
alpha wolf
Rover@Home
 
2000
Duncan the
Highland Terrier / Sheep|Dog:
Trial by Eire

MusicCreatures - exchange:
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1999
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sand:stone
Rufus
 
1998
swamped!