1. Daniel Thalmann is a Swiss and Canadian computer scientist and a pioneer in Virtual humans.
10 Facts About Daniel Thalmann
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Daniel Thalmann is currently Honorary Professor at EPFL, Switzerland and Director of Research Development at MIRALab Sarl in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Daniel Thalmann is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, and member of the editorial board of six other journals.
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Daniel Thalmann is coeditor of 30 books, and coauthor of several books including Crowd Simulation and Stepping Into Virtual Reality, published by Springer.
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Daniel Thalmann introduced, with Marcelo Kallmann, the concept of smart objects as objects that describe their own possible interactions.
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Daniel Thalmann recently extended his research from virtual humans to social robots, working in the team on Nadine Social Robot.
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Daniel Thalmann is recognized in the area of Virtual Rehabilitation, a term he coined with Professor Grigore Burdea of Rutgers University.
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Daniel Thalmann has created with him the International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation and is a founder of the International Society of Virtual Rehabilitation.
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Daniel Thalmann received an Honorary Doctorate from Paul-Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, in 2003.
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Daniel Thalmann received the Eurographics Distinguished Career Award in 2010 and the 2012 Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award.