Acting the part: The role of gesture on avatar identity

Andrew Feng; Gale Lucas; Stacy Marsella; Evan Suma; Chung Cheng Chiu; Dan Casas; Ari Shapiro

doi:10.1145/2668064.2668102

Acting the part: The role of gesture on avatar identity

Andrew Feng
, Gale Lucas
, Stacy Marsella
, Evan Suma
, Chung Cheng Chiu
, Dan Casas
, Ari Shapiro

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Abstract

Recent advances in scanning technology have enabled the widespread capture of 3D character models based on human subjects. However, in order to generate a recognizable 3D avatar, the movement and behavior of the human subject should be captured and replicated as well. We present a method of generating a 3D model from a scan, as well as a method to incorporate a subjects style of gesturing into a 3D character. We present a study which shows that 3D characters that used the gestural style as their original human subjects were more recognizable as the original subject than those that don't.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - Motion in Games 2014, MIG 2014
Editors	Stephen N. Spencer
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	49-54
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450326230
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2668064.2668102
State	Published - Nov 6 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th International Conference on Motion in Games, MIG 2014 - Los Angeles, United States Duration: Nov 6 2014 → Nov 8 2014

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Name	Proceedings - Motion in Games 2014, MIG 2014

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Other	7th International Conference on Motion in Games, MIG 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Los Angeles
Period	11/6/14 → 11/8/14

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Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © ACM.

Keywords

3D
Animation
Avatar
Gesture
Simulation

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Feng, A, Lucas, G, Marsella, S, Suma, E, Chiu, CC, Casas, D & Shapiro, A 2014, Acting the part: The role of gesture on avatar identity. in SN Spencer (ed.), Proceedings - Motion in Games 2014, MIG 2014. Proceedings - Motion in Games 2014, MIG 2014, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 49-54, 7th International Conference on Motion in Games, MIG 2014, Los Angeles, United States, 11/6/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2668064.2668102

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