USC Institute for Creative Technologies
- interactive digital media for learning
- ambitious early project, Mission Rehearsal Exercise
- Hollywood script meets army training
- Lietenant in Humvee in Bosnia, has to deal with accident involving army vehicle and civilian, and reports of unrest in the town
- VR with virtual characters
- vary emotional intensity of experience and characters
- leads to proliferation of projects
- virtual humans
- Sgt Blackwell
- natural language understanding and generation
- animation/related to emotion
- immersion
- flatworld
- graphics
- narrative and storytelling
- learning sciences
- games and simulation