Feb 22, 2006
Social puppet to train soldiers
Via Smart Mobs
'Social Puppet,' is a 3D simulation program created to help soldiers learn unfamiliar languages by interacting with animated characters. For this project, financed by DARPA, the researchers have given on-screen characters human non-verbal communication behaviors.
The software has been designed by Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson of the University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute.
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