This is the home of the JACK software. Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Miralab At the University of Geneva. Research on very large collaborative virtual environments. Some work with avatar interfaces.
Avatars act as semi-autonomous communicative agents.
They handle some of the nonverbal behavior for you in chat environments. Research at the MIT Media Lab. Animated Conversation Fully autonomous agents which converse verbally and nonverbally. Also research at the MIT Media Lab. Industry Credo Interactive Inc. Markets a number of character movement products.