3 papers
cs.HC2025
Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the "Cute" Factor in Computer Voice
Yuto Mandai, Katie Seaborn, Tomoyasu Nakano +3
"Kawaii" is the Japanese concept of cute, which carries sociocultural connotations related to social identities and emotional responses. Yet, virtually all work to date has focused…
cs.HC2025
Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
Takao Fujii, Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds +1
Conversational agents that mimic people have raised questions about the ethics of anthropomorphizing machines with human social identity cues. Critics have also questioned assumpti…
cs.GR2024
A Practical Style Transfer Pipeline for 3D Animation: Insights from Production R&D
Hideki Todo, Yuki Koyama, Kunihiro Sakai +2
Our animation studio has developed a practical style transfer pipeline for creating stylized 3D animation, which is suitable for complex real-world production. This paper presents…