Product Description: Novel pervasive, mobile, and interactive graphical technologies underlie a new mode of storytelling interactive digital storytelling (IDS) whether in int- active entertainment, computer games, education, therapy or other interactive digitalapplications...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2006. The book presents 24 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers together with 3 invited talks and the abstracts of 19 poster papers...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on E-learning and Games, Edutainment 2006, held in Hangzhou, China in April 2006. The 121 revised full papers and 52 short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited papers and those of the keynote speeches cover a wide range of topics, including e-learning platforms and tools, learning resource management, practice and experience sharing, e-learning standards, and more...read more

Product Description: The origin of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference dates from a successful workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments held in Brighton at the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98). This workshop was followed by a second one held in Salford in Manchester in 1999...read more

Discusses the fundamentals of building and engineering robots, addresses the challenges of making them more functional and intelligent, and provides examples from science, technology, and motion pictures.