Avatar Reactive Behavior Generation for Immediate Social Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Communications via avatars in virtual or real spaces lack immediacy, failing to present reactive behaviors such as a partner looking at a speaker in response to speaking, leading to a less engaging interaction experience.
Innovation Solution
An image generation method that identifies social behavior tendencies between users and controls the avatar's behavior to present reactive actions, allowing for immediate and engaging interactions by generating an avatar image depicting the desired reactive behavior without waiting for actual user actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If avatar-based communication is used to enable remote communications, then communication capability is improved, but immediacy of interaction deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-defines multiple types of social behaviors (e.g., approaching, retreating, greeting, parting) that avatars can perform. When a user performs a social behavior, the system immediately presents the corresponding pre-defined behavior type to the communication partner without waiting for actual execution, thereby achieving immediate reactive interaction while maintaining communication capability through avatar representation
2Loss of time
If reactive behavior presentation is implemented to improve immediacy, then interaction engagement is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments social behaviors into distinct, pre-defined types (approach, retreat, greeting, parting, etc.). Each behavior type is independently defined with specific parameters, allowing the system to handle reactive interactions through simple pattern matching rather than complex real-time analysis, thus improving immediacy while controlling system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of capturing and transmitting actual user actions in real-time, the system uses pre-defined behavioral patterns as copies or representations of social interactions. When a user performs a social behavior, the system presents the corresponding pre-defined behavior copy to the communication partner, achieving immediate reactive interaction without requiring complex real-time action capture and transmission infrastructure
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AI summary
An image generation method, for displaying avatars. The method includes identifying a tendency in a predetermined temporal interval of a social behavior performed by a second user to a first user if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user, of the users performing communications by way of avatars. The method may also include controlling the social behavior selected based on the identified tendency such that the social behavior is presented to the first user by way of the avatar of the second user, if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user.