My interest is in the computational modeling of cognition, emotion and social behavior, both as a basic research methodology in the study of human behavior as well as the use of these computational models in a range of education and analysis applications.
This is the official website of STELARC. Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body.
"Virtual Internet Celebrity VTuber" is an emerging industry that combines technology and popular markets. It is currently creating a trend around the world. In order to promote the development of this innovative industry, we established this association in 2019. It operates with four cores of "local culture, international exchange, educational innovation, and virtual technology", and holds "VTuber Character Design Competition" and "VTuber Hackathon Creation Event" every year to help promote Taiwan's cultural characteristics to the global market, and " International Virtual Production Forum", invites well-known experts and scholars related to virtual production from all over the world to come to Taiwan to promote exchanges in Taiwan's real estate industry, and deepen the development of Taiwan's education, create somatosensory immersion teaching, and strive to cultivate the next generation and enhance the competitiveness of Taiwan's virtual production. The new digital era of virtual and real integration is coming, and the association will introduce various forward-looking technologies to bring the power to accelerate the promotion of virtual production in Taiwan!
Tencent Research Institute, through its website TISI.org, has actively explored the development, trends, and applications of digital humans in the context of the virtual world and digital economy. It has published key reports such as the Digital Human Industry Development Trend Report (2023), which examines how technological progress, evolving user needs, ecosystem improvements, and regulatory standards drive the growth of the digital human sector. Topics include the transition from visually appealing avatars to intelligent agents with personality, the impact of generative AI on content creation, and legal implications such as portrait rights and voice synthesis. TISI also discusses integration of digital humans in livestreaming, entertainment, and enterprise services, and addresses compliance issues under China’s Civil Code. The institute serves as a thought leader in shaping the future of embodied AI and virtual identity within the broader digital ecosystem.
20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics.
ROS is a set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot applications.
The Streamy Awards honors excellence in online video and the creators behind it in over forty-five awards categories.
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VPH Institute promotes, supports, and pursues not-for-profit scientific research and development on integrative biomedicine and related topics.
The VRM Consortium is an organization aimed at popularizing the platform-independent 3D avatar file format "VRM" and formulating a unified standard.