Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Marco Gillies

Role

Teaching Creative Computing I and Msc in Computer Games and Entertainment

Research interests

Computer animation, interactive virtual characters, non-verbal expression, motion capture

Selected publications

In Press

Zhang, L., Gillies, M., Robertson D., Oldroyd, A. & Barnden, J.A. (under review). Emotionally Expressive Characters in E-drama. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Semi-Autonomous Avatars, Marco Gillies and Daniel Ballin in Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. Aylett and Canamero eds. (John Benjamins)

2008

Conference Papers

Zhang, L., Gillies, M. & Barnden, J.A. (2008). EMMA: an Automated Intelligent Actor in E-drama. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 13th –16th Jan 2008. Canary Islands, Spain.

Pan, X., Gillies M., and Slater, M. (2008) Male Bodily Responses During an Interaction with a Virtual Woman. In IVA 2008, Tokyo, Japan

2007

Book chapters

Zhang, L., Gillies, M., Barnden, J.A., Hendley, R.J., Lee, M.G. & Wallington, A.W. (2007). Affect Detection and an Automated Improvisational AI Actor in E-drama. Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Human Computing. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Issue no: 4451. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp.339-358.

Conference Papers

Zhang, L., Gillies, M., Barnden, J.A. & Hendley, R.J. (2007). An Improvisational AI Agent and Emotionally Expressive Characters. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Narrative Learning Environments, Supplementary Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), July 9-13, 2007, Los Angeles, USA. IOS press. pp. 60-69.

eDrama: Facilitating online role-play using emotionally expressive avatars. Kulwant Dhaliwal, Marco Gillies, John O'Connor, Amanda Oldroyd, Dale Robertson, and Li Zhang in The Proceedings of the AISB Workshop on Language, Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters (P. Olivier and R. Aylett eds) 2007

Zhang, L., Gillies, M., Robertson D., Oldroyd, A. & Barnden, J.A. (2007). Emotionally Expressive Characters in E-drama (Best paper award). In Proceedings of International Conference of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions. May 2007, London UK.

Pan, X., Gillies, M., Sezgin, T. M. & Loscos, C. (2007) Expressing Complex Mental States Through Facial Expressions. In the Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal

2006

Conference Papers

Building Expression into Virtual Characters. V. Vinayagamoorthy, M. Gillies, A. Steed, E. Tanguy, X. Pan, C. Loscos, and M. Slater in Eurographics Conference State of the Art Reports 2006

Applying direct manipulation interfaces to customizing player character behaviour . M. Gillies in The Proceedings of the International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2006 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Individuality and Contextual Variation of Character Behaviour for Interactive Narrative. M. Gillies, I. B. Crabtree and D. Ballin in The Proceedings of the AISB Workshop on Narrative AI and Games 2006

2005

Conference Papers

Direct Manipulation-like Tools for Designing Intelligent Virtual Agents. M. Gillies, D. Robertson and D. Ballin in The Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005 Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Teaching Virtual Characters to use Body Language. D. Friedman and M. Gillies in The Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005 Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

A Platform Independent Architecture for Virtual Characters and Avatars. M. Gillies, V. Vinayagamoorthy, D Robertson and A Steed. Ballin in The Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005 Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. (Poster abstract)

Non-verbal Communication for Correlational Characters. Marco Gillies and Mel Slater in the Proceedings of The 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence, London, September 2005

2004

Journal Papers

Behaviourally Rich Actions for User Controlled Characters, Marco Gillies and Neil Dodgson in the Journal of Computers and Graphcics (Elsevier Science) Vol 28 no 6 2004

Customisation and Context for Expressive Behaviour in the Broadband World, Marco Gillies, I. Barry Crabtree and Daniel Ballin BT Technology Journal Vol 22 no 2 pp 7-17 April 2004

Conference Papers

Integrating autonomous behavior and user control for believable agents Marco Gillies and Daniel Ballin, in the Proceedings of the Third international joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Columbia University, New York, July 2004

Affective Interactions Between Expressive Characters. Marco Gillies and Daniel Ballin in the Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, The Netherlands October 2004

Expressive characters and a text chat Marco Gillies, Barry Crabtree and Daniel Ballin, in the Proceedings of the AISB workshop on Language, Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters (P. Olivier and R. Aylett eds) University of Leeds, UK March 2004

A Framework For Interpersonal Attitude And Non-Verbal Communication In Improvisational Visual Media Production. Daniel Ballin, Marco Gillies and Barry Crabtree in the First European Conference on Visual Media Production IEE, London, UK 15-16 March 2004

Efficient Clothing Fitting from Data. Marco Gillies, Daniel Ballin and Balázs Csanád Csáji in the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG) Plzen, Czech Republic 2-6 February 2004

2003

Conference Papers

A Model of Interpersonal Attitude and Posture Generation, Marco Gillies and Daniel Ballin in The Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents 2003 Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

2002

Journal Papers

Eye Movements and Attention for Behavioural Animation, Marco Gillies and Neil Dodgson in The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation. 13: pp 287-300 2002

Conference Papers

Autonomous Secondary Gaze Behaviour, Marco Gillies, Neil Dodgson and Daniel Ballin in Ruth Aylett and Lola Cañamero (eds.) Proceedings of the AISB Workshop on Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interactions, Imperial College London April 2002 pp 37-42

Integrating Internal Behavioural Models with External Expression, Marco Gillies, Daniel Ballin and Neil Dodsgon in Helmut Prendiger (ed.) Proceedings of the PRICAI Â’02 International Workshop on Lifelike Animated Agents: Tools, Affective Functions and Applications, Tokyo August 2002 pp 34-39

2001

Technical Reports (Phd Thesis)

Practical Behavioural Animation Based on Vision and Attention, Marco Gillies, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-522 September 2001

1999

Conference Presentations

Invariants and Affordances for Walking in a Cluttered Evironment, Marco Gillies and Neil Dodgson, in Daniel Ballin (ed) Second Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, University of Salford, September 1999

Psychologically based walking in a cluttered environment, Marco Gillies and Neil Dodgson, Eurographics Short papers and Presentations 1999

Ball catching: an example of psychologically-based behavioural animation, Marco Gillies and Neil Dodgson in the Proceedings of the Eurographics UK 17th annual conference, 1999