Preliminary Timetable

 

 

Steps

Done?

Deadline

Weeks

Pre-Studies:

Research Topic:

-          Browse literature about NPR/VR/AR/Collaboration etc.

-          Discuss with Marc and others about possible topic

-          Determine area of research and one specific topic

o        Preliminary title: “Communication Behaviour in Shared Spaces

Literature:

-          Related Research on avatars

-          Psychological background

-          Agent design

 

07.03.03

2

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Research Paper:

-          Determine the structure & timetable

-          Write “Abstract”

-          Write “Introduction”

o        General Aims

o        Structure of this Paper

-          Write “Augmented Reality & Collaboration”

o        What is Augmented Reality?

o        Collaboration in todays World

-          Write “Related Research”

 

14.03.03

Implementation:

Helpful connections:

-          Trond Nielsen @ UC for AI?

-          Mathew Powel @ UC for speech & gesture analysis?

-          Andy Cockburn @ UC for UI design?

Work by others:

-          GLFace’ from Mr. Park

-          BodyJet’ from Justin Cassell & Hannes V.

-          ‘Microsoft Agent’

-          Virtual Human from Nadia & Daniel Thalman @ ITH, Geneva

 

18.03.03

14

 

VRML Face:

-          Find/Construct

-          Handle vertices from OpenGL

-          Do animation (by swapping different predefined states)

-          Possible extent to upper body presentation

 

28.03.03

 

Integration of Face/Body

-          into VR-Environment

-          into AR-Environment

o        realistic

o        (non-photorealistic)

 

?

 

Conversation module

-          Speech Recognition

-          Language synthesis

-          Gesture & Gaze Recognition

-          Gesture synthesis

 

?

 

Integration of Conversation module

-          Interface to Speech Recognition

-          Interface to Gesture & Gaze Recognition

 

?

 

Spatial ability

-          With fixed location (predetermined)

-          With variable location (tracking & image analysis)

 

?

 

Research Paper:

-              Write “Implementation”

 

20.06.03

Evaluation:

User Testing / Comparison between interaction with

-          VR agent on screen or in immersive environment

-          AR agent in immersive environment

-          real character

 

11.07.03

4

 

Research Paper:

-          Write “User Testing”

-          Write  “Results”

-          Write “Summary & Future Work”

 

18.07.03

 

 

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