With this monograph we introduce a new, systematic taxonomy of Sports Interaction
Technology (Sports ITech) that defines a design space of existing and future work in this …

We present a novel constraint-based keyframe extraction technique, Key Probe. Based on
animator-specified constraints, the method converts a skeleton-based motion or animated …

Recent progress in robotics has a great potential, and we are considering to develop a
dancing humanoid robot for entertainment robots. In this paper, we propose three …

In the framework of our Reactive Virtual Trainer (RVT) project, we are developing an
Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) capable to act similarly to a real trainer. Besides presenting the …

With the increased availability of motion capture data, the volume of motion library grows so
large that it is difficult for animators to manually browse the dataset to search desired …

Abstract A Reactive Virtual Trainer (RVT) is an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) capable of
presenting physical exercises that are to be performed by a human, monitoring the user and …

Over the past decade, motion capture data has become a popular research tool, and motion
databases have grown exponentially. Indexing, querying, and retrieving data has thus …

Sketch-drawings is an intuitive and comprehensive means of conveying movement ideas in
character animation. We proposed a novel sketch-based approach to assisting the authoring …

Over the past decade, many research fields have realized the benefits of motion capture
data, leading to an exponential growth of the size of motion databases. Consequently …

In this paper we raise the issue whether imperfections, characteristic of human-human
communication, should be taken into account when developing virtual humans. We argue …