Decision-making in crisis situations: research and innovation for optimal training

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Seizing Power: Shaders and Storytellers....Pages 3-11
Real-Time Lighting Design for Interactive Narrative....Pages 12-20
Interactive Out-of-Core Visualisation of Very Large Landscapes on Commodity Graphics Platform....Pages 21-29
A Cinematography System for Virtual Storytelling....Pages 30-34
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Authoring Highly Generative Interactive Drama....Pages 37-46
Character-Focused Narrative Generation for Execution in Virtual Worlds....Pages 47-56
Managing Authorship in Plot Conduction....Pages 57-64
Authoring Edutainment Stories for Online Players (AESOP): Introducing Gameplay into Interactive Dramas....Pages 65-73
From the Necessity of Film Closure to Inherent VR Wideness....Pages 74-77
Virtual StoryTelling: A Methodology for Developing Believable Communication Skills in Virtual Actors....Pages 78-81
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Stories in Space: The Concept of the Story Map....Pages 85-93
Mediating Action and Background Music....Pages 94-101
The Effects of Mediation in a Storytelling Virtual Environment....Pages 102-111
Context Design and Cinematic Mediation in Cuthbert Hall Virtual Environment....Pages 112-115
Group Interaction and VR Storytelling in Museums....Pages 116-119
Beyond Human, Avatar as Multimedia Expression....Pages 120-123
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Building Virtual Actors Who Can Really Act....Pages 127-134
The V-Man Project: Toward Autonomous Virtual Characters....Pages 135-145
Tell Me That Bit Again... Bringing Interactivity to a Virtual Storyteller....Pages 146-154
A New Automated Workflow for 3D Character Creation Based on 3D Scanned Data....Pages 155-158
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Using Motivation-Driven Continuous Planning to Control the Behaviour of Virtual Agents....Pages 159-162
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The Art of Mixing Realities....Pages 165-178
”Just Talking about Art” – Creating Virtual Storytelling Experiences in Mixed Reality....Pages 179-188
Users Acting in Mixed Reality Interactive Storytelling....Pages 189-197
Is Seeing Touching? Mixed Reality Interaction and Involvement Modalities....Pages 198-207
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Using Virtual Reality for ”New Clowns”....Pages 211-219
Storytelling for Recreating Our Selves: ZENetic Computer....Pages 220-226
A Distributed Virtual Storytelling System for Firefighters Training....Pages 227-230
CITYCLUSTER ”From the Renaissance to the Megabyte Networking Age” A Virtual Reality & High Speed Networking Project....Pages 231-234
A Storytelling Concept for Digital Heritage Exchange in Virtual Environments....Pages 235-238
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