Research

Virtual worlds and characters; social, educational and collaborative online environments; computer games and interactive stories; human-computer interaction; computer graphics and animation; new media and digital art; image processing and computer vision; simulation and modeling; artifi cial intelligence; multimedia and software project management.

Application

Carleton Virtual (3D Virtual Environment for Education and Research); iFACE (Interactive Facial Animation – Comprehensive Environment); Virtual Pow-wow (Virtual Environment for Native Dance); intelligent framework for procedural animation of human behaviours.

Activities

Journal Editorial Board:

• International Journal on Computer Games Technology
• The Open Cybernetics and Systemtics Journal

Conference International Program Committee:

• FutureTech
• Computer Graphics International
• IEEE Digital Entertainment and Creative Technology
• CyberGames

Journal Articles

Ali Arya, Steve DiPaola and Avi Parush (2009), “Perceptually Valid Facial Expressions for Character-based Applications,” Intenational Journal of Computer Game Technology.

Ali Arya, and Steve DiPaola (2007), “Face Modeling and Animation Language for MPEG-4 XMT Framework,”IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

Ali Arya, and Steve DiPaola (2007), “Multi-Space Behavioural Model for Face-based Affective Social Agents,”EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.