VHML Workshops

The Virtual Human Markup Language is designed to accommodate the various aspects of Human-Computer Interaction with regards to Facial Animation, Body Animation, Dialogue Manager interaction, Text to Speech production, Emotional Representation plus Hyper and Multi Media information. The text that a Virtual Human is to speak is marked up with tags that direct the character's emotions, gestures and body motion. For Example

<sad>
   You <emph>said</emph> to me once <pause length="short"/>
   that pathos left you unmoved, but that beauty,
   <look-down wait="750ms"/><look-up/>
   <emph affect="b" level="moderate"> mere</emph> beauty,
   could fill your eyes with tears.
</sad>

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More examples can be found here.

The following workshops concerned with VHML or VHML-like languages may be of interest:

NAME DATE VENUE

OZCHI2004 Proposed Workshop on
Affective User Interfaces for Ubiquitous Computing and Smart Environments
(Workshop Summary) Cancelled
20-21^st November,
2004 Wollongong, Australia

AAMAS2004 Workshop on
Balanced Perception and Action in ECAs Finished
20^th July,
2004 New York, USA

AVI04 Workshop on
How much human-like should an Intelligent Interface be ? Finished
25-28^th May,
2004 Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy

Dagstuhl seminar on
Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents Finished
15-19^th March,
2004 Wadern, Germany

AAMAS2003 Workshop
(W10) on
Embodied conversational characters as individuals
(Workshop Summary) Finished
15^th July,
2003 Melbourne, Australia

HF2002 Workshop
on
Virtual Conversational Characters:
Applications, Methods, and Research Challenges
(Workshop Summary) Finished
29^th November,
2002 Melbourne, Australia

AAMAS Workshop
(W14) on
Embodied conversational agents
- let's specify and evaluate them!
(Workshop Summary) Finished
16^th July,
2002 Bologna, Italy

IST Concertation VHML Workshop Finished
February
6th, 2002 Bruxelles, Belgium

Talking Head Technology Workshop Finished
November 20th 2001 Perth, Western Australia

For more information please contact raytrace@talkingheads.computing.edu.au

VHML is being developed as part of the European Union
5^th Framework InterFace project (http://www.ist-interface.org/).