My areas of interest includes interactive art expression systems, facial and
character systems for animation and real-time interactivity, alternative user
interfaces and 3D interactive narrative and collaboration systems. See my portfolio
site for details as well as recent papers and lectures.
Stanford Sites:
Facade: Stanford Facial
Animation System (developed by my Facial Animation students)
Alice: The "Chasing Alice" Virtual Performance Site
(developed by my Interactive Narrative students)
Past Courses:
Spring 01: Art 175 C Digital Narrative Production
(co-taught with Greg Niemeyer)
Winter 01: Art 173A
The Illusion of Life: Facial Animation
Fall 00: Art
173 Interactive Digital Narrative
Portfolio Site:
www.dipaola.org
Upcoming Lectures:
April 17th, 4.15pm-6.15pm, Center
for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
Lecture:
Gesture
and Narrative Creation in Avatar-Based 3D Virtual Communities
August 14th, Siggraph
2001, Los Angeles
Panel:
Designing
Experience: Emerging Trends in Experience Based Environments.
Past Lectures:
Feb 28th: UCLA
Design | Media Arts , UCLA (streamed live at eda)
Lecture:
Internet-based Interactive
Character Design: From Agents to Avatars
Feb 2nd: Seminar
on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford Univ.
Lecture:
Emerging
Interactive Expression Systems: Blurring Author and Audience
Jan 29-30th: Interactive
Age Conference, Univ. Southern California
Panel:
Self-Authorship: Role-Playing Games and Avatar-Based Worlds
Jan 18th: Annenberg Center for Communication,
Convergence-Divergence
Speaker Series
Panel:
The Audience
Takes Over: Participant as Collaborator
