HANIME - An H-Anim Compliant Avatar Editor for NVEs

Christos Bouras, Kostas Kartsakalis, V. Triglianos, Th. Tsiatsos

2010

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of a visual H-Anim avatar editor. Although H-Anim is a very promising standard for interchangeable avatars and avatar’s animation, the lack of an effective yet simple to use visual avatar editor could repel users from H-Anim compliant Networked Virtual Environments. Therefore this paper presents an H-Anim compliant editor, called HanimE, for creating avatars for Networked Virtual Environments. This editor is entirely based on a graphical user interface and allows users to customize H-Anim avatars, in a simple yet effective manner. The avatars created by HanimE can be integrated in various H-Anim compliant Networked Virtual Environments regardless of the technology they are built on, since they are X3D files.

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in Harvard Style

Bouras C., Kartsakalis K., Triglianos V. and Tsiatsos T. (2010). HANIME - An H-Anim Compliant Avatar Editor for NVEs . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-026-9, pages 347-352. DOI: 10.5220/0002825203470352


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp10,
author={Christos Bouras and Kostas Kartsakalis and V. Triglianos and Th. Tsiatsos},
title={HANIME - An H-Anim Compliant Avatar Editor for NVEs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={347-352},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002825203470352},
isbn={978-989-674-026-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)
TI - HANIME - An H-Anim Compliant Avatar Editor for NVEs
SN - 978-989-674-026-9
AU - Bouras C.
AU - Kartsakalis K.
AU - Triglianos V.
AU - Tsiatsos T.
PY - 2010
SP - 347
EP - 352
DO - 10.5220/0002825203470352