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Author:   E. Granum ,  Lars Qvortrup ,  B. Holmqvist ,  S. Kolstrup
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   2001 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.810kg
ISBN:  

9781852333317

ISBN 10:   1852333316
Pages:   443
Publication Date:   13 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction — Welcome into the Interface.- 1 Avatars and Agents in Computerized Theatre.- 2 Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds: Interactivity and Interaction Between Avatars, Autonomous Agents and Users.- 3 Three Types of Multimedia Interactions — and Beyond.- 4 Uses of Theatre as Model: Discussing Computers as Theatre — Some Additional Perspectives.- 2 Construction of Interactive Lifelike Agents and Actors.- 5 Agents: Dependent Autonomy and Transparent Automatons?.- 6 Enhancing the Usefulness of Community Chat Rooms: Application of Autonomous Agents.- 7 Agents as Actors.- 8 Games and Stories.- 9 Aspects of Interactive Autonomy and Perception.- 10 Discussion.- 3 Verbal and Non-Verbal Interaction with Virtual Worlds and Agents.- 11 Interacting with a Virtual World Through Motion Capture.- 12 Linguistic Interaction in Staging — a Language Engineering View.- 13 Exploiting Recent Research on Dialogue to Model Verbal Communication in Staging.- 4 Interactive Narratives.- 14 Narratives: Different Narratives, Different Theories for Different Media?.- 15 The Limits of Narration.- 16 Film Theory Meets 3D: a Film Theoretic Approach to the Design and Analysis of 3D Spaces.- 17 Shaping Meaning: On Action and Content in Unreal Worlds.- 18 Constructing the Concept of the “Interactive 3D Documentary” — Film, Drama, Narrative or Simulation?.- 19 Temporal Logic as a Tool for the Description of the Narrativity of Interactive Multimedia Systems.- 5 Methods for Designing Interactive Inhabited Virtual Worlds.- 20 Experimental Design of an Interactive Installation.- 21 Using Software Engineering Approaches to Model Dynamics in Interactive Software Systems.- 22 Managing Narrative Multimedia Production.- Author Index.

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