Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual RealityTechnologies for Storytelling: Second International Conference, ICVS 2003, Toulouse, France, November 20-21, 2003. Proceedings

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by  Kevin Björke (auth.), Olivier Balet, Gérard Subsol, Patrice Torguet (eds.)

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Olivier Balet Gérard Subsol
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Storytelling
UsingVirtualRealityTechnologiesforStorytelling
Second International Conference, ICVS 2003
Toulouse, France, November 20-21, 2003
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GerhardGoos,KarlsruheUniversity,Germany
JurisHartmanis,CornellUniversity,NY,USA
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OlivierBalet
CS-SI,VirtualRealityDepartment,ZACdelaGrandePlaine
rueBrindejoncdesMoulinais,31500Toulouse,France
E-mail:[email protected]
GérardSubsol
UniversitédePerpignan,LTS
52,avenuedeVilleneuve,66860PerpignanCedex,France
E-mail:[email protected]
PatriceTorguet
UniversitéPaulSabatier,IRIT
118routedeNarbonne,31062ToulouseCedex4,France
E-mail:[email protected]
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Preface
In September 2001, we organized the 1st International Conference on Virtual Story-
tellinginAvignon,France.Thiswasthefirstinternationalscientificevententirelyde-
votedtothenewdisciplinethatlinkstheancienthumanartofstorytellingtothelatest
hightechnologiesoftheVirtualRealityera.
Since this date, technology has not slowed its course. We all know that personal
computers are even more powerful, but there have been huge advances in graphics
boards.Thesearenowprogrammableandcanrenderinrealtimehugequantitiesofdata
aswellasspecialeffectsthatuntilrecentlyrequiredadedicatedgraphicssuperworksta-
tion.Applicationsthatwere in the researchlab havenow cometo market.3D Virtual
Humans, the heroes of today’s video games, are taking their first steps on e-business
Web sites. These will be the stars of tomorrow. New topics are being intensively re-
searched,especially,mixedandenhancedrealities– the artofcombiningsynthesized
withrealworlds.
Thisevolutionraisesmanytechnical,applicational,artistic and evenethicalques-
tions.Theoccasionofthe2ndInternationalConferenceonVirtualStorytellingprovided
anexcellentopportunitytoonceagaingatherresearchersfromthescientific,artisticand
industrialcommunitiestodemonstratenewmethodsandtechniques.Thiswasthevenue
toshowthelatestresults,andexchangeconceptsandideasabouttheuseofVirtualRe-
alitytechnologiesforcreating,populating,renderingandinteractingwithstories,what-
evertheirform,beittheatre,movie,cartoon,advertisement,puppetshow,multimedia
work,videogames,etc.
We believethat participantsin VirtualStorytelling2003foundexcitingguidelines
forfuturescientific and artistic researchas wellasideasfornewapplicationsandde-
velopments.BecauseVirtualStorytellingisarapidlyexpandingdiscipline,newconfer-
encesareexpectedtobeorganizedverysoontoupdatethestateoftheart!
Toulouse,November2003 OlivierBalet
Jean-PierreJessel
Ge´rardSubsol
PatriceTorguet
Acknowledgement
Organizing a conference on Virtual Storytelling was a joint initiative of the Virtual
RealityDepartmentoftheCommunicationsetSyste`mesGroupandtheFrenchWorking
GrouponVirtualReality(GT-RV).
However, Virtual Storytelling2003 only came about thanks to the financial sup-
portoftheISTProgrammeoftheEuropeanCommission,ofGrandToulouse,thePaul
SabatierUniversityofToulouse,andtheUniversityofGlasgow.Wereallywanttothank
themallforofferingtheopportunitytoorganizeaconferenceonsoinnovativeatopic.
WewouldalsoliketothanktheEurographicsOrganizationforsupportingthecon-
ferenceaswellasthemembersoftheScientificandApplicationBoardwhohelpedthe
organizerstodefinetheconferencetopics,andproposednamesofexpertsforthePro-
gram Committee. The members of the Program Committee deserve special acknowl-
edgmentsfortheiramazingreviewsofthelargenumberofpapersthatweresubmitted
(threetimeswhatwehadinitiallyexpected!).
Last,butnotleast,wehadthepleasuretowelcometwocompanies,ImmersionSA
andNVIDIACorporation,thatofferedprizesforBestPaperandBestDemonstration.
Finally,ourthankstotheorganizationpeoplefromSophieetAssocie´sfortheirhelp
duringtheconferencepreparation.
Organization
Chair
OlivierBalet Communications&Syste`mesGroup,France
Jean-PierreJessel IRIT,PaulSabatierUniversity,Toulouse,France
Ge´rardSubsol LTS,UniversityofPerpignan,France
PatriceTorguet IRIT,PaulSabatierUniversity,Toulouse,France
Scientific and ApplicationBoard
NormanI.Badler UniversityofPennsylvania,USA
RonenBarzel Pixar,USA
MauriceBenayoun Z-AProduction,Paris,France
KevinBjo¨rke NVIDIACorporation,SantaClara,USA
BruceBlumberg MITMediaLab,USA
RonanBoulic EPFL,Lausanne,Switzerland
MarcCavazza UniversityofTeesside,UK
YvesDuthen IRIT,UniversityofToulouse1,France
FranzFischnaller UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,USA
F.A.B.R.I.CATORS,Milan,Italy
CatherineGarbay IMAG,Grenoble,France
AndrewGlassner Consultant,Seattle,USA
StefanGo¨bel ZGDV,Darmstadt,Germany
JonathanGratch UniversityofSouthCalifornia,USA
AlainGrumbach ENST,Paris,France
BarbaraHayes-Roth ExtempoSystems,Inc.,USA
PaulKafno HDThames,UK
WimLamotte LimburgsUniversitairCentrum,Belgium
DidierLibert ENSAM,Paris,France
SinaMostafawy [rmh],Germany
RyoheiNakatsu KwanseiGakuinUniversity,Sanda,Japan
NirvanaTechnology,Inc.,Japan
Jean-ChristopheNebel UniversityofGlasgow,UK
SallyJaneNorman E´coleSupe´rieuredel’Image,France
CatherinePe´lachaud UniversityofParis8,France
KenPerlin NewYorkUniversityMediaResearchLab,USA
SimonRichir ISTIAInnovation,Angers,France
LeonieSchaefer FraunhoferFIT,SanktAugustin,Germany
BarrySilverman UniversityofPennsylvania,USA
UlrikeSpierling UniversityofAppliedSciences,Erfurt,Germany
Marie-LuceViaud INA,Bry-sur-Marne,France
JohnWilson UniversityofNottingham,UK
R.MichaelYoung NorthCarolinaStateUniversity,Raleigh,USA
VIII Organization
Program Committee
JanAllbeck UniversityofPennsylvania,USA
VictorBayon UniversityofNottingham,UK
Ste´phaneDonikian IRISA,Rennes,France
PatrickDoyle StanfordUniversity,USA
KnutHartmann UniversityofMagdeburg,Germany
JunichiHoshino TsukubaUniversity/PRESTOJST,Japan
IdoIurgel ZGDV,Darmstadt,Germany
MichaelJohns UniversityofPennsylvania,USA
PieterJorissen LimburgsUniversitairCentrum,Belgium
AlexanderLechner VertigoSystems,Germany
ManuelVin˜asLimonchi UniversityofGranada,Spain
HeidyMaldonado StanfordUniversity,USA
MaicMasuch UniversityofMagdeburg,Germany
MichaelMateas GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology,USA
ChrisRaymaekers LimburgsUniversitairCentrum,Belgium
Jean-HuguesRe´ty UniversityofParis8,France
NadineRichard ENST,Paris,France
PaulRichard ISTIAInnovation,Angers,France
OliverSchneider ZGDV,Darmstadt,Germany
MagySeifEl-Nasr PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,USA
AlexanderSibiryakov UniversityofGlasgow,UK
Danae¨Stanton UniversityofNottingham,UK
AndrewStern InteractiveStory.net,grandtextauto.org,USA
NicolasSzilas IDtension,France
BillTomlinson UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,USA
DariaTsoupikova UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,USA
Table of Contents
Real-TimeTechnologies
SeizingPower:ShadersandStorytellers ................................. 3
KevinBjo¨rke
Real-TimeLightingDesignforInteractiveNarrative........................ 12
MagySeifEl-NasrandIanHorswill
InteractiveOut-of-CoreVisualisationofVeryLargeLandscapes
onCommodityGraphicsPlatform ...................................... 21
PaoloCignoni,FabioGanovelli,EnricoGobbetti,FabioMarton,
FedericoPonchio,andRobertoScopigno
ACinematographySystemforVirtualStorytelling ......................... 30
NicolasCourty,FabriceLamarche,Ste´phaneDonikian,andE´ricMarchand
Narrativityand Authoring
AuthoringHighlyGenerativeInteractiveDrama ........................... 37
NicolasSzilas,OlivierMarty,andJean-HuguesRe´ty
Character-FocusedNarrativeGenerationforExecutioninVirtualWorlds ....... 47
MarkO.RiedlandR.MichaelYoung
ManagingAuthorshipinPlotConduction ................................ 57
DanielSobral,IsabelMachado,andAnaPaiva
AuthoringEdutainmentStoriesforOnlinePlayers(AESOP):
IntroducingGameplayintoInteractiveDramas ............................ 65
BarryG.Silverman,MichaelJohns,RansomWeaver,andJoshuaMosley
FromtheNecessityofFilmClosuretoInherentVRWideness ................ 74
NelsonZagalo,VascoBranco,andAnthonyBarker
VirtualStoryTelling:AMethodology
forDevelopingBelievableCommunicationSkillsinVirtualActors ............ 78
SandrineDarcy,JulieDudgdale,MehdiElJed,NicoPallamin,
andBernardPavard
Mediationand Interface
StoriesinSpace:TheConceptoftheStoryMap ........................... 85
MichaelNitscheandMaureenThomas
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MediatingActionandBackgroundMusic ................................ 94
PietroCasellaandAnaPaiva
TheEffectsofMediationinaStorytellingVirtualEnvironment ............... 102
SarahBrown,IldaLadeira,CaraWinterbottom,andEdwinBlake
ContextDesignandCinematicMediationinCuthbertHallVirtualEnvironment.. 112
StanislavRoudavskiandFranc¸oisPenz
GroupInteractionandVRStorytellinginMuseums ........................ 116
Rau´lCid
BeyondHuman,AvatarasMultimediaExpression ......................... 120
RonBroglioandStephenGuynup
Virtual Characters
BuildingVirtualActorsWhoCanReallyAct ............................. 127
KenPerlin
TheV-ManProject:TowardAutonomousVirtualCharacters ................. 135
EricMenou,LaurentPhilippon,Ste´phaneSanchez,Je´roˆmeDuchon,
andOlivierBalet
TellMeThatBitAgain...BringingInteractivitytoaVirtualStoryteller ........ 146
Andre´ Silva,GuilhermeRaimundo,andAnaPaiva
ANewAutomatedWorkflowfor3DCharacterCreation
Basedon3DScannedData............................................ 155
AlexanderSibiryakov,XiangyangJu,andJean-ChristopheNebel
UsingMotivation-DrivenContinuousPlanningtoControltheBehaviour
ofVirtualAgents.................................................... 159
NikosAvradinis,RuthAylett,andThemisPanayiotopoulos
MixedReality
TheArtofMixingRealities ........................................... 165
SallyJaneNorman
“JustTalkingaboutArt”–CreatingVirtualStorytellingExperiences
inMixedReality .................................................... 179
UlrikeSpierlingandIdoIurgel
UsersActinginMixedRealityInteractiveStorytelling ...................... 189
MarcCavazza,OlivierMartin,FredCharles,StevenJ.Mead,
andXavierMarichal
IsSeeingTouching?MixedRealityInteractionandInvolvementModalities ..... 198
AlokNandiandXavierMarichal