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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Believable"”.
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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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Believable conversational agents for teaching ancient history and culture in 3D virtual worlds
This thesis introduces believable conversational agents as an engaging and motivational learning tool for teaching ancient history and culture in virtual worlds. Traditional approaches are lacking engagement, interactivity and socialisation, features that are of tremendous importance to modern …
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Credibility of first versus second child sexual abuse allegations
… then older children are typically viewed as more believable than younger children, whereas in cases where honesty is more salient, then younger children are viewed as more believable than older children. The present research examined whether these perceptions of the child witness held true for …
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Implementing Lexical And Creative Intentionality In Synthetic Personality
… synthetic characters must be consistently believable and capable of role-appropriate emotional expression. The author believes traditional synthetic characters must be improved to meet this goal. For a synthetic character to be believable, human users must be able to perceive a link between …
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Effects of child age and type of detail reported on credibility of child abuse allegations
… rated by mock jurors as less accurate and less believable than children who experienced it once, although there was no difference in their actual accuracy (Connolly, Price, Lavoie, & Gordon, 2008). In the present study, 405 undergraduate students read one of four scenarios of a child sexual …
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Realistic Dialogue Engine for Video Games
The concept of believable agent has a long history in Artificial Intelligence. It has applicability in multiple fields, particularly video games. Video games have shown tremendous technological advancement in several areas such as graphics and music; however, techniques used to simulate dialogue …
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Efficient facial animation integrating Euclidean and geodesic distance-based algorithms into radial basis function interpolation.
… on the efficient creation of realistic and believable facial expressions. Among various approaches for creating believable movements in human facial features, one of the most common utilises motion capture. This thesis explores the current approaches on facial animation with this technology …
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Evolving controllable emergent crowd behaviours with Neuro-Evolution
… directable both at a high and low level, and be believable. As agent-based techniques allow for low-level directability and more believable crowds, they are typically used in this field. However, due to the bottom-up nature of these techniques, achieving high level direct ability requires the …
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Investigating Sexual Violence in College-Aged Dating Couples: Does the Medium Affect the Message?
… written scenarios were found to be more believable and emotionally evocative than were video scenarios. Students were also more likely to identify sexual assault as having happened in the written, as opposed to video, scenarios, but showed no significant differences in their …
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Education About the Adverse Health Effects of Recreational Marijuana: The Role of Type of Persuasion and Source
… sponsored by the FDA was significantly more believable, on average, compared to a branding agency, with factual claims being significantly more believable than evaluative claims. Policy makers may wish to consider these findings when developing ways to educate the public on the potential …
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An exploration of texture synthesis with neural networks
… area, and have shown great promise in creating believable textures. Despite this, there exist some problems with their use in this field.Here, we explore those advances and the issues that arise in developing a pipeline for generating high quality textures.
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Pigments of Imagination: An Actor's Journey of Creating the Character of Jack Lawson from David Mamet's Race
… <p>The purpose of this study is to create a believable, multiple dimension character portrayal of Jack Lawson in David Mamet’s <em>Race.</em> Documentation of the process will include: an explanation of the acting technique and analysis used to create the backstory and portrayal of the …
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Recovery, escape and consolation in the secondary worlds of The Lord of the Rings
… functions, the fairy story needs to create a believable Secondary World that is separate from the Primary World in which we live. In fact, Tolkien does this on two levels: the Secondary World of Middle-earth, and the inner Secondary World of the Elves.
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Does a rising intonation at the end of a spoken statement affect a witness's credibility?
… uses a rising intonation they may sound less believable to a juror. The effect of rising intonation on the credibility of witness testimony was examined in the present study. Three independent variables were tested: the intonation contour at the end of a spoken witness statement (rising or …
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Out of True
… with in an effort to create not only believable but engaging performances. I will then assess the success of this experiment through the use of audience questionnaires. </p>
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Portraits of Progress: The Rise of Realism in Jane Austen's Clergy
… be true ; William Collins, too ridiculous to be believable ; and Edmund Bertram, realistic because he is both flawed and virtuous. Utilizing critical sources from the last sixty years, this thesis demonstrates that previous scholars have overlooked the idea that the development of Austen's …
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Science fiction and the theatre
… literary advances, and by demonstrating that believable science-fictional events can be presented on stage.
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Bicycle Season
… when the intention of the narrative to portray believable human behavior in moments of dramatic conflict. I will discuss this thesis from the point of conception on a screenwriting level; analyze the steps along the way as they relate to film production, and conclude at the point of final …
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Using Local Information for Compositing CG Into Traditional Art
… study is to create composites that are visually believable while showing that an object composited into one section of an image requires characteristics designed speci cally for that section. In order to show this, I examine four di erent case studies. Each case is a work of traditional art which …
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