Life-Like Characters
Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications
 

Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka (Eds.)


 

Online material for the chapter

Great Expectations: Prediction in Entertainment Applications
by Robert Burke


 

 

Springer Online - Life-Like Characters Book

Waiting for Goatzilla

This web page contains information about the fearsome behemoth known as Goatzilla, who uses predictions and expectations to motivate real-time action selection decisions.

Synthetic Characters

This web page provides information about Dr Bruce Blumberg's Synthetic Characters group at the MIT Media Lab.  It's the birthplace of concepts like the ActionTuple, and the place where most of the work that inspired this chapter was done.

 

Contact editor: Robert Burke
E-mail: rob@mle.media.mit.edu

 

About the Author

Robert Burke