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Synthetic Characters

Synthetic Characters is a computational construct in mixed reality performance that refers to autonomously animated, artificially intelligent agents embodied in virtual or augmented environments to interact believably with human performers and audiences.

129

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6.3K

Citations

340

Authors

118

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

20

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Publications

129

AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being

Pat Pataranutaporn, Valdemar Danry, Joanne Leong et al. · Nature Machine Intelligence · 2021 · 341 citations · Full text

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Integrated learning for interactive synthetic characters

Bruce Blumberg, Marc Downie, Yuri Ivanov et al. · 2002 · 186 citations

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Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents

Ana Paiva, João Dias, Daniel Sobral et al. · 2004 · 184 citations

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Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley

Shawn A. Steckenfinger, Asif A. Ghazanfar · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 181 citations · Full text

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LEARNING BY FEELING: EVOKING EMPATHY WITH SYNTHETIC CHARACTERS

Ana Paiva, João Dias, Daniel Sobral et al. · Applied Artificial Intelligence · 2005 · 180 citations · Full text

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Authors

340

  1. AP
    Ana Paiva

    Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

    18 publications · 882 citations

    15

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  2. RA
    Ruth Aylett

    Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 568 citations

    9

    h-index

  3. BB
    Bruce Blumberg

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    9 publications · 735 citations

    9

    h-index

  4. RM
    Rachel McDonnell

    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    7 publications · 279 citations

    7

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  5. LH
    Lynne Hall

    University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 433 citations

    6

    h-index

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Institutions

118

  1. Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento

    Lisbon, Portugal

    13 h-index

    37 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    20 publications

    2.7K citations

  3. Human Media

    Belmont, United States

    8 h-index

    28 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. Trinity College Dublin

    Dublin, Ireland

    8 h-index

    24 publications

    1.1K citations

  5. University of Lisbon

    Lisbon, Portugal

    7 h-index

    19 publications

    1.5K citations

  6. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    855 citations

  7. University of Sunderland

    Sunderland, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    433 citations

  8. Heriot-Watt University

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    193 citations

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Venues

  1. Applied Artificial Intelligence

    AAI · 4 publications · 273 citations

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  2. Computers & Graphics

    3 publications · 117 citations

    3

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  3. ACM Transactions on Graphics

    TOG · 3 publications · 206 citations

    3

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  4. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Conference · 3 publications · 193 citations

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