Diana Arellano

RESEARCH INTERESTS

During my undergraduate thesis I started with the topic of representing emotions and personality in virtual characters. Currently my principal fields of research are 3D facial modelling and animation, affective computing, computer worlds, and human-computer interaction. I'm mainly focus in generation of expressive facial animation and emotion/personality modeling.

Other topics that will be included in future research are: natural reaction of virtual characters, virtual environments modelling using ontologies, and HCI.

MSc. Thesis

HERE you can find material of my MSc. dissertation named "Realistic generation of emotions and personality traits through parameterized facial expressions".

OTHER MATERIAL

• 2009 - Darwin's centenary. "Darwin Virtual: aplicaciones computacionales de las teorías sobre expresiones faciales de Charles Darwin" (.ppt)
• 2008 - UNIVERSITAT D’ESTIU (UIB). How to upload videos in web pages (.ppt)
• 2007 - INEVAI project material (.ppt)

NEWS

• 06/03/2009: Presentation of "Darwin Virtual: aplicaciones computacionales de las teorías sobre expresiones faciales de Charles Darwin", in Cala Millor - Mallorca (Universitat Oberta per a Majors - UOM ).
• 05/14/2009: Presentation of "Darwin Virtual: aplicaciones computacionales de las teorías sobre expresiones faciales de Charles Darwin", in Muro - Mallorca (Universitat Oberta per a Majors - UOM ).
• 03/11/2009: Presentation of "Darwin Virtual: aplicaciones computacionales de las teorías sobre expresiones faciales de Charles Darwin", in IES Algarbe, Ibiza.
• 11/24/2008: Article about "Personality in virtual characters faces" published in El Mundo and SINC