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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Believability"”.
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Procedural animation: towards studio solutions for believability
… of character animation and the notion of believability. It uses Laban Movement Analysis as a method in the application of procedural animation. The study seeks to address the following objectives: (1) To examine what areas of procedural animation may enhance the believability of a …
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Psychometric properties of the intolerance of uncertainty : believability scale
… change occurs proposes that by reducing believability of negative unhelpful beliefs and increase in believability of alternative helpful beliefs leads to symptom reduction. The development of measurements for these specific constructs is needed to better understand the drive of change in …
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The believability of hearsay testimony involving child witnesses: effects of age and format
… relationship of the child's age to the relative believability of three hearsay testimony fonnats in a 2 (child witnesses: one 4-year-old and one 8-year-old) x 3 (hearsay conditions: interview of child, interviewer testimony in "gist" or summary form, or interviewer testimony in detailed, …
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Using affective computing to enhance the believability of virtual agents and the social interaction with users
… a positive overall perception of the agent’s believability when responding to eight general affective states, with further improvement observed when changes in the user’s physiological arousal were included. Adjusting the window settings for processing physiological signals led to improved …
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Two Sources of Influence Related to the Use of the Discounting Principle: Specific Versus General Causal Attributions and the Believability of Attributions
Numerous studies on causal attribution have supported the discounting principle which has been stated by Kelley (1973) as follows: "The role of a given cause in producing a given effect is discounted if other causes are also present" (p. 113). Kun, Murray, and Sredl (1980) have noted that …
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The effects of message direction and sex differences on the interpretation of workplace gossip
… message interpretation, politicalism, and believability. Applying symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory, seven relationships between variables are proposed. The seven hypotheses are tested via a web-based questionnaire that manipulated the message direction and sex of the …
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Enhancing player experience in computer games: A computational Intelligence approach.
… the player experience, namely adaptability and believability, in real time computer games from a computational intelligence perspective. The nature of real time computer games requires that the game AI be computationally efficient in addition to being competent in the game. This thesis starts …
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Design and Analysis of Decoy Systems for Computer Security
… that the utility of the decoys depends on the believability of the bogus information; we demonstrate the believability through experimentation with human judges. For the network decoys, we developed a novel trap-based architecture for enterprise networks that detects "silent" attackers who are …
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Believable conversational agents for teaching ancient history and culture in 3D virtual worlds
… We label such agent abilities as "awareness believability" and develop the necessary theoretical background and the formalisation of this concept. We also discuss the I2B (Interactive, Intelligent and Believable) framework that implements awareness believability using the combination of the …
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Media consumption amid contestation: Northern Nigerians’ engagement with the BBC World Service
… tendency to exhibit a phenomenon of selective believability in their interactions with transnational media; the mediating role of religion, culture and ideology in such interactions; and the dynamics of credibility and believability. Credibility is found to be a necessary but not sufficient …
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Cognitive Defusion and Psychological Flexibility With Self-Relevant Academic Distress Stimuli
… thoughts. Studies have found that discomfort and believability of these thoughts decrease more following this defusion exercise as compared to a thought distraction task. The present study evaluated the effects of the word repetition defusion exercise using content reflecting academic distress, in …
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Modelling Human Behaviour for Believable NPCs
This thesis explores modelling believability for non-player characters (NPC) when fulfilling the role typically reserved for human players in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. Numerous experiments are conducted, which are focused on acquiring specific data on gameplay patterns and behaviours …
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Controlling the Uncontrollable: A New Approach to Digital Storytelling Using Autonomous Virtual Actors and Environmental Manipulation
… responses to unknown situations, and the believability of the virtual actor is hindered by possible conflicts between scripted actions and appropriate responses as perceived by the viewer. This paper presents a novel method of storytelling by manipulating the environment, whether …
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Human emotion simulation in a dynamic environment
The aim of this work is to contribute to the believability of the simulated emotions for virtual entities to allow them display human like features. Endowing virtual entities with such features requires an appropriate architecture and model. For that, a study of emotional models from different …
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Does a rising intonation at the end of a spoken statement affect a witness's credibility?
… variables relating to how subjects judged the believability and credibility of the witness statements were measured. The primary finding was that rising intonation alone did not significantly affect perceptions of the speaker's credibility. However, the gender of the speaker was found to affect …
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Imitation learning through games: theory, implementation and evaluation
… previous research, we also identify a set of believability criteria - elements of agent behaviour which are of particular importance in determining the “humanness” of its in-game appearance. We then detail a reinforcement-learning approach to imitating the human player’s navigation of his …
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An Evaluation of Multiple Exemplar Instruction to Teach Perspective-Taking Skills to Young Adults with Autism: Deictic Framing and Cognitive Defusion
… Defusion was measured using ratings of the believability and comfort associated with negative thoughts, and the percentage of time engaged in appropriate social interaction was recorded for each participant. Results from Experiment 1 showed the emergence of deictic relational responding in …
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A single-case series investigation of the efficacy of an internet delivered multi-session cognitive bias modification – interpretation task in a population with clinical levels of panic symptomatology.
… bias was assessed using the ranking and believability tasks of the Brief Body Sensations Interpretation Questionnaire. Four of the six participants showed a significant change in interpretation bias on the ranking task, whilst only two participants showed a change in interpretation bias …
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