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Since the beginnings of character animation, anticipation has been an effective part of the repertoire of tricks used to create believable animated characters. However, anticipation has had but a secondary role in the creation of synthetic virtual life forms. In this paper, we describe how a simple anticipatory mechanism that generates an affective signal resulting from the mismatch between sensed and predicted values — the emotivector — can help in the creation of consistent believable behaviour for intelligent virtual characters.
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Martinho, C., Paiva, A. (2007). It’s All in the Anticipation. In: Pelachaud, C., Martin, JC., André, E., Chollet, G., Karpouzis, K., Pelé, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_30
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