Virtual Storytelling - Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling : International Conference ICVS 2001, Avignon, France, September 27-28, 2001 Proceedings

by International Conference on Virtual Storytelling 2001 Avignon, France; Subsol, Gerard; Torguet, Patrice

• ISBN13: 9783540426110
• ISBN10: 3540426116
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2001, held in Avignon, France, in September 2001. The 20 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The book offers topical sections on new techniques, authoring tools, a new form of narration, virtual characters, and applications.

Table of Contents

New Techniques
Under Construction in Europe: Virtual and Mixed Reality for a Rich Media Experience	p. 3
Generation of True 3D Films	p. 10
Spatial Sound Enhancing Virtual Story Telling	p. 20
The VISIONS Project	p. 30
Programming Agent with Purposes: Application to Autonomous Shooting in Virtual Environment	p. 40
Interactive Immersive Transfiction	p. 44
Authoring Tools
Interactive Storytelling: People, Stories, and Games	p. 51
An Authoring Tool for Intelligent Educational Games	p. 61
Generation and Implementation of Mixed-Reality, Narrative Performances Involving Robotic Actors	p. 69
A New Form of Narration
Film and the Development of Interactive Narrative	p. 81
Virtual Storytelling as Narrative Potential: Towards an Ecology of Narrative	p. 90
Adaptive Narrative: How Autonomous Agents, Hollywood, and Multiprocessing Operating Systems Can Live Happily Ever After	p. 100
Virtual Characters
Learning in Character: Building Autonomous Animated Characters That Learn What They Ought to Learn	p. 113
Real Characters in Virtual Stories (Promoting Interactive Story-Creation Activities)	p. 127
Real-Time Character Animation Using Multi-layered Scripts and Spacetime Optimization	p. 135
Characters in Search of an Author: AI-Based Virtual Storytelling	p. 145
Virtual AgentsÆ Self-Perception in Story Telling	p. 155
Applications
Reflections from a Hobby Horse	p. 161
DocToon (c) - A Mediator in the Hospital of the XXIst Century	p. 171
The Interplay between Form, Story, and History: The Use of Narrative in Cultural and Educational Virtual Reality	p. 181
Virtual Storytelling of Cooperative Activities in a Theatre of Work	p. 191
Virtual Storytelling for Training: An Application to Fire Fighting in Industrial Environment	p. 201
Computer Animation and Virtual Reality for Live Art Performance	p. 205
Virtual House of European Culture: e-AGORA (Electronic Arts for Geographically Open Real Audience)	p. 208
Author Index	p. 213
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