The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit (BEAT) allows animators to input typed text that
they wish to be spoken by an animated human figure, and to obtain as output appropriate …

Since the first edition of this book in 2007, there has been a fast evolution in Virtual Reality.
Palmer Luckey designed a prototype for what would become the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality …

An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language,
consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary …

Natural language is an easy and effective medium for describing visual ideas and mental
images. Thus, we foresee the emergence of language-based 3D scene generation systems …

A natural language interface exploits the conceptual simplicity and naturalness of the
language to create a high-level user-friendly communication channel between humans and …

In addition to providing an account of the empirical facts of language, a theory that aspires to
account for language as a biologically based human faculty should seek a graceful …

Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only
natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …

We report on the experiences of Siemens Corporation in nine globally-distributed software
development projects. These projects represent a range of collaboration models, from co …

Musically naive participants were scanned before and after a period of 15 weeks during
which they were taught to read music and play the keyboard. When participants played …

The question of what computational capacities, if any, differ between humans and
nonhuman animals has been at the core of foundational debates in cognitive psychology …