• 1. Introduction and Historical Background ; 1.1 Why make human figure models? ; 1.2 Historical roots ; 1.3 What is currently possible? ; 1.4 Manipulation, animation, and simulation ; 1.5 What did we leave out? ; 2. Mody Modeling ; 2.1 Geometric body modeling ; 2.2 Representing articulated figures ; 2.3 A flexible torso model ; 2.4 Shoulder complex ; 2.5 Clothing models ; 2.6 The anthropometry database ; 2.7 The anthropometry spreadsheet ; 2.8 Strength and torque display ; 3. Spatial Interaction ; 3.1 Direct manipulation ; 3.2 Manipulation with constraints ; 3.3 Inverse kinematic positioning ; 4. Behavioral Control of Articulated Figures ; 4.1 An interactive system for postural control ; 4.2 Interactive manipulation with behaviors ; 4.3 The animation interface ; 4.4 Human figure motions ; 4.5 Virtual human control ; 5. Simulation with Societies of Behaviors ; 5.1 Forward simulation with behaviors ; 5.2 Locomotion ; 5.3 Strength guided motion ; 5.4 Collision-free path and motion planning ; 5.5 Posture planning ; 6. Task-level Specifications ; 6.1 Performance simulation with simple commands ; 6.2 Natural language expressions of kinematics and space ; 6.3 Task-level simulation ; 6.4 A framework for instruction understanding ; 7. Epilogue ; 7.1 A road map toward the future ; 7.2 Conclusion

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