1. Communicating with Avatar Bodies Francesca Barrientos Computer Science UC Berkeley 8 July 1999 HCC Research Retreat

2. 2 Avatar worlds ComicChat Oz blaxxun

3. 3 Nonverbal behaviors q Gesture q Proxemics q Posture q Facial expression q Gaze q Context q Appearance q...

4. 4 Previous approaches Expression selection Automatic animation Natural Language Inference (Nivi waves to Harry.)

5. 5 Beyond chat q Interfaces for controlling animation of nonverbal behaviors verbal communication through audio continuous control q Understand how user movements translate onto avatar bodies

6. 6 Importance of synchrony q Part of meaning of gesture comes from its co-ocurrence with speech q Rhythm, flow, stroke, force, shape…

7. 7 Kinematic mapping

8. 8 Evaluation q Depends on task q Ease of use q Expressive satisfaction q Level of interaction engagement q Emergent communicative behaviors

9. 9 Explore design space

10. 10 Network issues q Synchronizing control and audio data

11. 11 Summary q Avatars allow communication using surrogate bodies q Gesture and speech are coexpressive q Design tool: virtual prototypes for PRoP design