Ph.D. candidate, Sangyoon Lee presents EVL’s research on creating LifeLike avatars at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2010), September 20-22, 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. IVA-2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior.

The paper entitled “Designing and Expressive Avatar of a Real Person” (Sangyoon Lee, Gordon Carlson, Steve Jones, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot) is presented as part of the IVA Gesture and Expression Session, Monday September 20th, 1-3pm. The presentation describes research developments related to the National Science Foundation supported Project LifeLike (CNS-0420477, CNS-0703916).