Notes:
Peter Plantec (PM Plantec) is a writer, digital artist, and software designer who has written a book called “Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit,” which discusses the creation of virtual humans and their personalities. He is also the co-founder of a company called Virtual Personalities, Inc. (now known as Conversive, Inc.), which focuses on the development of virtual humans. Plantec has received an award for his work and has been recognized for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. He has also spoken at conferences and events about his work and has been interviewed about his ideas and research. Plantec has a background in psychology and is interested in the ways in which virtual humans can be used to improve human communication and interaction.
Resources:
- mundosdigitales.org .. international conference on animation, vfx and new media
- ordinarymagic.com .. peter plantec wizard
- twitter.com/thenar .. peter plantec
- youtube.com/user/thenar .. peter plantec
Wikipedia:
References:
- TEDxMunich – Peter Plantec (2011)
- 5D: Building Digital Worlds for Immersive Narrative Experiences (2009)
- Virtual Humans: A Build-it-yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by-step Instructions (2004)
See also:
Conversive Verbot (Verbal Robot) | Michael L. Mauldin (Michael Mauldin)
The future… will there be a place for human teachers?
P Plantec – On the horizon, 2004 – emeraldinsight.com
Looks at the possible evolution of virtual teachers. They could be designed to teach any subject, while automatically adapting their teaching style to a student’s learning style. Use of “plug-ins” would make it easy to change personalities, language, student profiles as well as …
Analytical Studies of Selected Educational Data. Volume I of II.
PM Plantec – 1971 – ERIC
Analytical studies were made of three research efforts (an Advocate Survey, the School Staffing Survey, and Project TALENT) for the purpose of determining educational needs of gifted and talented children and youth. The Advocate Survey involved a questionnaire sent …
Diving in to Peter Plantec’s brave new world of virtual humans
B Crosbie – Beyond Fun, 2008 – dl.acm.org
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Beyond fun: Serious games and media
D Davidson – 2008 – books.google.com
… are revolutionising elearning – Siobhan Thomas Games/Gaming/Simulation in a New Media (Literature) Classroom – Scott Rettberg Weblogs: Learning in Public –Jill Walker Rettberg Self, video games and pedagogy –Jenny Weight Diving in to Peter Plantec’s Brave NewWorld …
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational, and Experimental Issues
P Merlo, S Stevenson – 2004 – MIT Press
… Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by- Step Instructions Peter Plantec New York: Amacom (American Management Association), 2004, xviii+279 pp and CD-ROM; paperbound, ISBN 0-8144-7221-4, $34.95 Most researchers of embodied …
Diving into Peter Plantec’s brave new world of virtual humans
WW Crosbie – On the Horizon, 2005 – emeraldinsight.com
Purpose–To review Peter Plantec’s book Virtual Humans: A Build it Yourself Kit. Design/methodology/approach–This book is meant to be read by one willing to actively engage with the technologies that Plantec introduces. While the technology that enables …
Uncanny as usability obstacle
A Tinwell – International Conference on Online Communities and …, 2009 – Springer
… For the photo-realistic character the Emily Project, VFXworld’s Peter Plantec officially pro- nounced that Image Metrics has built a bridge across the Uncanny Valley [8]. By means of experiment, this study analyses case studies such as the Emily Project to assess if feelings of …
The coming robot revolution: Expectations and fears about emerging intelligent, humanlike machines
Y Bar-Cohen, D Hanson – 2009 – books.google.com
… Luo, University of Kobe, Japan Roger Mandel, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Nikolaos Mavroidis, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Chris Melhuish, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Peter Plantec, Columnist, VFXworld …
Selected Papers on Computer Languages
A Farghaly – aclweb.org
… Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by-Step Instructions Peter Plantec New York: Amacom (American Management Association), 2004, xviii+279 pp and CD-ROM; paperbound, ISBN 0-8144-7221-4, $34.95 …
Evaluation of the First Summer Leadership Training Institute 1973: A Brief Summary.
S Ripley – 1974 – ERIC
Page 1. DOCOHENT MUNE ED 088 263 BC 061 380 AUTHOR Ripley, Suzanne TITLE Evaluation of the First Summer Leadership Training Institute 1973: A Brief Summary. INSTITUTION Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, Va. Information Center on Exceptional Children …
Study of the Need for Educational Manpower for Handicapped Children and Youth: Phase IV Report. Final Report.
RD Mintz – 1970 – ERIC
Page 1. DOCUMENT RESUME ED 052 582 EC 032 847 AUTHOR Mintz, Raymond D.; And Others TITLE Study of the Need for Educational Manpower for Handicapped Children and Youth: Phase IV Report. Final Report. INSTITUTION …
Final Report on the Evaluation of Project Upswing’s First Year.
P Plantec – 1972 – ERIC
This technical report describes the evaluation of the first year of Project Upswing, a 2-year experimental study to determine the potential contribution of volunteers in helping young children overcome learning difficulties. The three large groups of first grade children …
A Course in Embodied Agent Design: Case Study and Current Development
M Yacci – EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and …, 2008 – learntechlib.org
… Allen, Byron, Dzikovska Ferguson, Galescu, & Stent, 2001). Peter Plantec, a designer of embodied agents, suggests that we abandon natural language and instead substitute personality (2004). His approach is to provide a pre …
Evaluation of the National/State Leadership Training Institute on the Gifted and Talented. Final Report.
P Plantec, J Hospodar – 1973 – ERIC
Presented is the first year evaluation of the National State Leadership Training Institute for the gifted and talented (N/S-LTI-G/T). Sections provide information on the background and purpose of the LTI and the report, the general evaluation plan (including research design …
Intellectual property rights in virtual environments: considering the rights of owners, programmers and virtual avatars
W Barfield – Akron L. Rev., 2006 – HeinOnline
… eds. 1999); see also generally Peter Plantec, Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete With Software and Step-By-Step Instructions (American Management Association; Bk&CD-Rom edition 2004). 652 [39:649 Page 5 …
Signs unsigned and meanings not meant: linguistic theory and hypothetical, simulated, imitation and meaningless language
D Bade – Language Sciences, 2012 – Elsevier
… Her curiosity, leaves you with the eerie feeling she might develop consciousness someday…someday soon. – Peter Plantec, Virtual Personalities, Inc., SYLVIE botmaster (from the ALICE website: http://www.alicebot.org/join.html) …
Career Education for Gifted and Talented Students.
KB Hoyt, JR Hebeler – 1973 – ERIC
… f) Dr. Elizabeth J. Simpson and Ms. Marion Craft, Bureau of Adult, Vocational andTechnical Education, USOE; g) Mr. Peter Plantec, OperationsResearch, Incorporated; and h) Dr. Sidney P. Harland, Jr., Departmentof Health, Education and Welfare. Each of these “observ …
Kinesic constructions
A De Beer – Animation, 2009 – Citeseer
… 2008). Peter Plantec in his article Crossing the Great Uncanny Valley draws our attention to the psychological reaction when faced with these types of realistic CGI characters that are at the same time both real and unreal. Lev …
All the Public Services by a Single Point in Electronic GovernmentGovernment Portal in Iraq
HA Al-saadi, HH safi Al-jebory – Journal of Al-Qadisiyah for Computer …, 2011 – iasj.net
… Project “ 2004 Page 13. 13 [2] Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by-Step Instructions by Peter Plantec 2004 [3] ????????? ???? ??? ??? ????? ?? ?? http://www.dm.gov.ae [4] Hayder H. Safi Al-jebory “Design and Implementation of an …
All the Public Services by a Single Point in Electronic Government: Government Portal in Iraq
HH safi Al-jebory, HA Al-saadi – Journal of Al-Qadisiyah for computer …, 2011 – qu.edu.iq
… government platform :the egov. Project “ 2004 [2] Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by-Step Instructions by Peter Plantec 2004 [3] ???? ???????? ???? ??? ??? ????? http://www.dm.gov.ae [4] Hayder H …
the Uncanny valley: a Working Hypothesis
MG Rossi, P Graziani, A Angelucci – Social Robots, 2017 – taylorfrancis.com
… In commenting on the extraordinary achievements of the so-called Emily Project, the writer, digital artist and software designer Peter Plantec recently wrote: “I officially pronounce that Image Metrics has finally built a bridge across the Uncanny Valley and brought us to the other …
A hypothetical case study: creating AI assistants in the law library
R Balleste – Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 2007 – Taylor & Francis
… This knowledge allows that assistant to be customized based on patron re- quirements. This functionality is easily accessible from a graphical tool for design and maintenance of the database and avatar. See also the book by Peter Plantec, Virtual Roy Balleste 55 Page 10 …
Computer-generated characters in Avatar and Benjamin Button
B Flueckiger – Digitalitat und Kino. Translation from German by B …, 2011 – digitaleskino.ch
… The outcome is most impressive. 10 Benjamin Button in close-up Benjamin Button can ultimately be categorized as consistent with both models described. One can assume that the character has overcome the uncanny valley, as Peter Plantec postulated at fmx 09 …
To illustrate the benefit of using fuzzy logic as part of the reasoning model for knowledge worker assisting agents
AF Shia – Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and …, 2005 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… 1999. [5] M. Mauldin and Peter Plantec, “Verbot®,” Conversive™ Press Release, 2000. [6] M. Mauldin, “Chatterbots, tinymuds, and the turing test: Entering the loebner prize competition,” Proc. of American Association of Artificial Intelligence, 1994 …
“Just roll your mouse over me”: Designing virtual women for customer service on the web
S Zdenek – Technical Communication Quarterly, 2007 – Taylor & Francis
… But this view may also hinge on anecdotal evidence, as this example from Peter Plantec’s (2004) Virtual Humans reveals: Forgive me for using a female character instead of switching back and forth or using the he/she approach …
Yo-Ho-i-lo and a Server of Warez
DT LA FF – The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural …, 2014 – books.google.com
… industry more bene?t than harm. Peter Plantec (1998), the animation columnist for the trade magazine AV Video Multimedia Producer, recently noted the value such people have to the industry. Plantec observes that warez helps …
Sex play in virtual worlds
RF Wilson – Wash. & Lee L. Rev., 2009 – HeinOnline
… 60. Mohney, supra note 15. 61. See Castronova, supra note 24, at 1089 (“[Virtual Reality] makes visual and auditory sensations better, both in the sense of realism and fantasy.”); see also Peter Plantec, The Promise of Digital Doubles, Nov …
cultural responses to the digital actor
L Bode – 2004 – academia.edu
… 50 Flanagan, “Mobile Identities, Digital Stars and Post-cinematic Selves,” pp. 77-93. 51 Ray Kurzweil, Foreword, Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-By-Step Instructions, by Peter Plantec, AMACOM, 2003 …
Achieving A Photoreal Digital Actor: The Digital Emily Project
O Alexander, M Rogers, W Lambeth, JY Chiang… – 2010 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page 1. Achieving A Photoreal Digital Actor: The Digital Emily Project Oleg Alexander 1 Mike Rogers 1 William Lambeth 1 Jen-Yuan Chiang 2 Wan-Chun Ma 2 Chuan-Chang Wang 3 Paul Debevec 2 1 Image Metrics 1918 Main St, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA …
Wander/Wonder
MC Bendell – 2018 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. APPROVAL SHEET Title of Thesis: Wander/Wonder Name of Candidate: Mollye Bendell Master of Fine Arts, 2018 Thesis and Abstract Approved: _____ Timothy Nohe Professor Visual Arts Date Approved: _____ Page 2 …
The Digital Emily project: photoreal facial modeling and animation
O Alexander, M Rogers, W Lambeth, M Chiang… – Acm siggraph 2009 …, 2009 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. SIGGRAPH 2009 Course Notes: The Digital Emily Project Creating a Photoreal Digital Actor: The Digital Emily Project Oleg Alexander Mike Rogers William Lambeth Matt Chiang Paul Debevec Image Metrics USC Institute for Creative Technologies …
Rising up from the MUD: Inscribing gender in software design
S Zdenek – Discourse & Society, 1999 – journals.sagepub.com
Page 1. Introduction You say “whatcha doing?” Newt says “What do you think, rhetty?” You say “I don’t know” Newt says “I’m sorry, rhetty, you can sleep with me if it’ll help . . .” You say “what made you say that?” Newt says “Nothing, rhetty” ARTICLE 379 …
The uncanny valley in games and animation
A Tinwell – 2014 – taylorfrancis.com
Page 1. Boca Raton London New York CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business AN AK PETERS BOOK Page 2. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite …
Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the year 1984: Minutes of the annual meeting of the Council of Representatives August 23 …
N Abeles – American Psychologist, 1985 – psycnet.apa.org
Page 1. Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the Year 1984 Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council of Representatives August 23 and 26, 1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and February 1-3, 1985, Washington, DC …
Modes of spectating
A Oddey, CA White – 2009 – books.google.com
Page 1. Modes of Spectating By Alison Oddey & Christine White Page 2. Modes of Spectating Page 3. Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the assistance we have received in compiling this book, and the intellectual generosity of all the contributors …
Exploring the Uncanny Valley to Find the Edge of Play.
SG Eberle – American Journal of Play, 2009 – ERIC
Page 1. © 2009 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois exploring the Uncanny Valley to Find the edge of Play • Scott G. Eberle Play offen rewards us with a thrill or a sense of wonder. But, just over the edge of play …
Animating the language machine: Computers and performance
M Soules – Computers and the Humanities, 2002 – Springer
Page 1. Computers and the Humanities 36: 319–344, 2002. © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 319 Animating the Language Machine: Computers and Performance MARSHALL SOULES Malaspina …
A study of how the technological advancements in capturing believable facial emotion in Computer Generated (CG) characters in film has facilitated crossing the …
C Louis – 2014 – wiredspace.wits.ac.za
Page 1. A Study of How the Technological Advancements in Capturing Believable Facial Emotion in Computer Generated (CG) Characters in Film has Facilitated Crossing the Uncanny Valley A Research Report submitted in …
Association, Incorporated, for the Year 1994
PH DeLeon – 1995 – psycnet.apa.org
Page 1. Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the Year 1994 Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council of Representatives August 11 and 14, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, and February 17-19,1995, Washington, DC Patrick H. DeLeon …
Treatment and Education of Autistic Children; Combined Application of Clinical and Laboratory Methods. Final Report.
CB Ferster – 1968 – ERIC
Page 1. 4’9 . X ED 030 247 By-Ferster, CB Treatment and Education of Autistic Children; Combined Application of Clinical and Laboratory Methods. Final Report. Institute for Beilavioral Research, Silver Spring. Md. Spons Agency-Office of Education (DHEW). Washington …
The elements of AIML style
R Wallace – Alice AI Foundation, 2003 – files.ifi.uzh.ch
Page 1. 1 The Elements of AIML Style March 28, 2003 By Dr. Richard S. WALLACE © 2003 ALICE AI Foundation, Inc. Page 2. 2 The Elements of AIML Style is a no-nonsense technical book that takes you on a journey from the …