Publications

If you use the Toolkit or any of its components to obtain research results that are published, then as per clause 3 of the license, you are required to cite us appropriately. Please use:

All Together Now: Introducing the Virtual Human Toolkit (Arno Hartholt, David Traum, Stacy C. Marsella, Ari Shapiro, Giota Stratou, Anton Leuski, Louis-Philippe Morency, Jonathan Gratch), In International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Humans, 2013.

Optionally, you can also cite one of these more recent VHToolkit papers:

Ubiquitous virtual humans: A multi-platform framework for embodied AI agents in XR. Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Reilly, A., Whitcup, W., Liewer, M., & Mozgai, S. (2019, December). In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) (pp. 308-3084). IEEE.

Multi-platform expansion of the virtual human toolkit: ubiquitous conversational agents. Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Reilly, A., Whitcup, W., Liewer, M., & Mozgai, S. (2020). International Journal ofSemantic Computing, 14(03), 315-332.

Other relevant papers are listed below. You can search for all ICT papers here.

Individual Modules

MultiSense

• Perception Markup Language: Towards a Standardized Representation of Perceived Nonverbal Behaviors (Stefan Scherer, Stacy C. Marsella, Giota Stratou, Yuyu Xu, Fabrizio Morbini, Alesia Egan, Albert Rizzo, Louis-Philippe Morency), In The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), 2012.

NPCEditor

• NPCEditor: A Tool for Building Question-Answering Characters (Anton Leuski, David Traum), In International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2011.
• Building Effective Question Answering Characters (Anton Leuski, Ronakkumar Patel, David Traum, Brandon Kennedy), In 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2006.

NonVerbal Behavior Generator

• Nonverbal Behavior Generator for Embodied Conversational Agents (Jina Lee, Stacy C. Marsella), In 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2006.

SmartBody

• Automating the Transfer of a Generic Set of Behaviors onto a Virtual Character(Andrew W. Feng, Yazhou Huang, Yuyu Xu, Ari Shapiro), In International Conference on Motion in Games, 2012.
• An Analysis of Motion Blending Techniques (Andrew W. Feng, Yazhou Huang, Marcelo Kallmann, Ari Shapiro), In International Conference on Motion in Games, 2012.
• An Example-Based Motion Synthesis Technique for Locomotion and Object Manipulation (Andrew W. Feng, Yuyu Xu, Ari Shapiro), In ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2012.
• Building a Character Animation System (Ari Shapiro), In The Fourth International Conference on Motion in Games, 2011.
• SmartBody: Behavior Realization for Embodies Conversational Agents (Marcus Thiebaux, Andrew Marshall, Stacy C. Marsella, Marcelo Kallmann), In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2008.
• Glances, Glares, and Glowering: How Should a Virtual Human Express Emotion Through Gaze? (Brent Lance, Stacy C. Marsella), In Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 20, 2010.
• Real-Time Expressive Gaze Animation for Virtual Humans (Marcus Thiebaux, Brent Lance, Stacy C. Marsella), In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2009.
• Hierarchical Motion Controllers for Real-Time Autonomous Virtual Humans(Marcelo Kallman, Stacy C. Marsella), In International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2005.

Research Systems

• Virtual Humans: A New Toolkit for Cognitive Science Research (Jonathan Gratch, Arno Hartholt, Morteza Dehghani, Stacy C. Marsella), In Cognitive Science, 2013.
• The Cultural Influence Model: When Accented Natural Language Spoken by Virtual Characters Matters (Peter Khooshabeh, Morteza Dehghani, Angela Nazarian, Jonathan Gratch), In Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Society, volume 29, 2013.
• Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents (Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Jillian Gerten, Edward Fast, Robin Duffy), In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), volume 4722, 2007.

General Virtual Humans

• Building Interactive Virtual Humans for Training Environments (Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, William Swartout, David Traum, Stacy C. Marsella, Diane Piepol), In Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), 2007.
• Toward Virtual Humans (William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Randall W. Hill, Eduard Hovy, Stacy C. Marsella, Jeff Rickel, David Traum), In AI Magazine, 2006.
• Creating Interactive Virtual Humans: Some Assembly Required (Jonathan Gratch, Jeff Rickel, Elisabeth André, Justine Cassell, Eric Petajan, Norman Badler), In IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2002.