Book Chapter Guide

This page links the chapters in the books to the relevant pages on the web site. The pages here do not aim to reproduce book content (apart from some key diagrams) but will provide links to relevant resources and let us add more information about each topic as all these areas evolve.

• Part I Landscape
• Chapter 1 What are Virtual Humans? 
• Defining Virtual Humans
• Chapter 2 Virtual Humans, Robots and AI
• VH vs AI vs Robots
• The Turing Test
• Uncanny Valley
• VH in Science Fiction
• Famous and Infamous Virtual Humans

• Part II Technology
• A VH Component Model
• Chapter 3 Body and Senses
• Virtual Human Bodies
• Virtual Human Senses
• Chapter 4 Mind
• Virtual Human Minds
• Chapter 5 Communication
• VH Communications
• VH Language Communication
• Chapter 6 Architecture
• Virtual Human Architectures
• Virtual Human Interfacing
• Chapter 7 Embodiment
• Embodiment
• Chapter 8 Assembling and Assemblages
• Types of VH
• Halo Test-Bed
• Lenses

• Part III Issues and Futures
• Chapter 9 Digital Ethics
• Ethics
• Chapter 10 Identity and Agency
• Identity and Agency
• Chapter 11 Virtual Humans for Education
• VH and Education
• Chapter 12 Digital Immortality
• Digital Immortality
• Chapter 13 Futures and Possibilities
• VH, AI and Employment
• Artificial General Intelligence
• Uploads and Emulations
• The Singularity
• Future Scenarios
• Artificial Sentience
• VH and Space Exploration