TSB Technique: Increasing a User's Sense of Immersion with Intelligent Virtual Agents
Mark Dunne, Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher · 2010
The eld of Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) research depends heavily on immersive techniques when presenting virtual agents to end-users. This sense of immersion relies on the user believing the agent to be real and present in their environment, creating the \Illusion of Life [21]. This poster describes the on-going research into using a combination of three rendering techniques, Twisting, Stretching and Boxing (TSB), to create a fully immersive 3D illusion for an end-user from any viewpoint, as they move freely in front of displays distributed across large populated environments. The novel approach outlined in this poster, uses head tracking, face detection and the TSB technique to increase the user’s sense of immersion and subsequently their sense of the agent’s presence within the environment. Using only web-cameras, our approach is a hardware-light solution which does not require the end-user to wear any additional apparatus, such as the LED headset used in [10]. The poster primarily discusses our Approach, the Preliminary Experiments & Results, Proposed Evaluation Process and Future Work.