When I was writing a feature for Fortune’s just-released digital issue, I asked Synthesia CEO and cofounder Victor Riparbelli ...
Apple has released a research paper discussing what it calls HUGS, a generative AI technology that can create a digital human avatar from a brief video in about 30 minutes. Released via Apple's ...
Artificial intelligence was the star of the show at CES this year, especially when it came to cars. And one phrase that kept coming up to describe in-vehicle AI functions was "human-like": meaning, a ...
Humans feel empathic embarrassment by witnessing others go through embarrassing situations. We examined whether we feel such empathic embarrassment even with robot avatars. Participants observed a ...
URBANA, Ill. — For more than three years, a team of graduate students led by Illinois CS professor Kris Hauser has progressed through the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE. Starting among nearly 80 teams from ...
In prolonged social interactions, human attention and gaze are profoundly influenced by the looking behavior of others – to an extent that gaze-based communication strategies have been transferred ...