Virtual Humans: Today and Tomorrow

David Burden, Maggi Savin-Baden

  • 出版商: CRC
  • 出版日期: 2019-02-04
  • 售價: $2,600
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,470
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 318
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 113855801X
  • ISBN-13: 9781138558014
  • 相關分類: 人工智慧機器人製作 Robots
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商品描述

Virtual Humans provides a much-needed definition of what constitutes a ‘virtual human’ and places virtual humans within the wider context of Artificial Intelligence development. It explores the technical approaches to creating a virtual human, as well as emergent issues such as embodiment, identity, agency and digital immortality, and the resulting ethical challenges. The book presents an overview of current research and practice in this area, and outlines the major challenges faced by today’s developers and researchers. The book examines the possibility for using virtual humans in a variety of roles, from personal assistants to teaching, coaching and knowledge management, and the book situates these discussions around familiar applications (e.g. Siri, Cortana, Alexa) and the portrayal of virtual humans within Science Fiction.

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  • Presents a comprehensive overview of this rapidly developing field
  • Provides an array of relevant, real-life examples from expert practitioners and researchers from around the globe in how to create the avatar body, mind, senses and ability to communicate
  • Intends to be broad in scope yet practical in approach, so that it can serve the needs of several different audiences, including researchers, teachers, developers and anyone with an interest in where these technologies might take us
  • Covers a wide variety of issues which have been neglected in other research texts; for example, definitions and taxonomies, the ethical challenges of virtual humans and issues around digital immortality
  • Includes numerous examples and extensive references

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《虛擬人類》提供了對「虛擬人類」的定義,並將虛擬人類置於人工智慧發展的更廣泛背景中。本書探討了創造虛擬人類的技術方法,以及涉及的新興問題,如具體化、身份、代理權和數位永生,以及由此產生的倫理挑戰。本書概述了當今這一領域的研究和實踐情況,並概述了當今開發者和研究人員面臨的主要挑戰。本書探討了在各種角色中使用虛擬人類的可能性,從個人助理到教學、指導和知識管理,並將這些討論置於熟悉的應用程序(例如Siri、Cortana、Alexa)和科幻作品中虛擬人類的描繪之中。

特點:
- 提供了這一快速發展領域的全面概述
- 提供了來自全球專家實踐者和研究人員的相關實例,介紹如何創造虛擬人類的身體、思想、感官和溝通能力
- 旨在廣泛而實用,以滿足多個不同受眾的需求,包括研究人員、教師、開發人員和對這些技術感興趣的任何人
- 涵蓋了其他研究文本中被忽視的各種問題,例如定義和分類、虛擬人類的倫理挑戰以及數位永生的問題
- 包含了大量實例和廣泛的參考資料