White-glove digital human design · Research-led relational AI
One character.
One purpose.
One unmistakable personality.
Vivience designs and deploys bespoke digital humans for media and entertainment, brand representation, personal assistance, learning, culture and institutional innovation. Every character is designed from form to mind for the specific project.
Research Prototype · Reflective-Collaborative Persona
LightArch
A custom MetaHuman research persona with its own visual identity, voice, knowledge architecture and relational design.
IEEE-Published Research
Affective-Emotive Resonance
Panther Research Award
Georgia State University · 2025–2026
Carnegie R1 Research Origins
Georgia State University research environment
CMII and CHAI Ecosystem
Human-AI and creative media research
The Vivience Difference
Not another avatar.
A complete character system.
A convincing digital human is not assembled from interchangeable presets. Appearance, voice, personality, knowledge, memory, behaviour and purpose must reinforce one another.
No two Vivience digital humans share the same personality architecture. Each is authored for its audience, environment, responsibilities and relational boundaries.
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Form
One-of-one character design, anthropomorphic facial morphology, wardrobe, surface detail and visual identity.
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Mind
Custom voice, personality, persona scaffolding, communication style, values, boundaries and emotional orientation.
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World
Knowledge banks, LLM orchestration, narrative objectives, actions, memory and deployment within the project environment.
White-Glove Character Creation
From project intent to a deployable digital human.
Vivience combines character art, cinematic production, interaction design and relational-AI research in one managed process.
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Character Strategy
Audience, purpose, environment, role, behavioural boundaries and measures of success.
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Visual Identity and Morphology
Custom MetaHuman or Character Creator design, facial structure, age, ethnicity, styling, wardrobe and performance requirements.
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Voice and Performance
Voice direction, prosody, accent, timing, facial performance, body language and animation vocabulary.
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Persona Scaffolding
Backstory, values, worldview, temperament, conversation style, relational orientation and guardrails.
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Knowledge and Intelligence
Project-specific knowledge banks, LLM selection, context, memory, narrative objectives and actions.
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Deployment and Evaluation
Unreal integration, experience design, browser or immersive deployment, testing, refinement and governance.
Where Digital Humans Create Value
Designed for the experience, not constrained to one industry.
Vivience adapts the character, intelligence, environment and interaction model to the project rather than forcing every client into the same product template.
Media and Entertainment
Interactive characters, fictional personalities, story worlds, live productions, games, virtual production and immersive entertainment.
Brand Ambassadors
Distinctive brand representatives for websites, launches, events, showrooms, campaigns, customer engagement and experiential marketing.
Personal Assistants
Purpose-built assistants, knowledge concierges, executive companions and specialist guides with controlled identity, memory and access.
Learning and Training
Roleplay, coaching, simulation, guided practice, assessment, tutoring and scenario-based professional development.
Culture and Public Engagement
Museum interpreters, historical or fictional figures, public-information guides, exhibitions and accessible knowledge experiences.
Research and Institutional Innovation
Experimental prototypes, funded research pilots, human-AI studies and responsible deployment programmes.
Character Craft
From recognisable human presence to stylised original character.
Custom MetaHumans
High-fidelity Unreal Engine characters shaped for cinematic, interactive and real-time applications. We customise identity, facial morphology, grooming, wardrobe, materials and performance behaviour.
Character Creator Characters
Flexible Reallusion Character Creator pipelines for realistic or stylised characters, custom proportions, wardrobe systems, facial profiles and production-ready animation workflows.
Research Prototype · Relational-Empathic Persona
Annelore
A bespoke digital human developed to investigate emotional nuance, relational continuity and layered care while maintaining transparent AI identity and duty-of-care boundaries.
CUSTOM MORPHOLOGY · VOICE · PERSONA SCAFFOLDING · KNOWLEDGE · MEMORY · RELATIONAL DESIGN
Prototype 02
No two personalities are the same.
Annelore’s voice, temperament, backstory, knowledge, boundaries and relational behaviour were authored for her specific research purpose.
Original Research Framework
Affective-Emotive Resonance
A structured framework for identifying, evaluating and responsibly designing sustained relational behaviour in embodied AI.
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Persistence
Sustaining affective tone and recalling emotional context across sessions.
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Belonging
Affirming shared relational space, mutuality and coherent social connection.
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Continuity
Building an emotional narrative linking earlier, present and prospective interactions.
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Layered Emotional Care
Demonstrating nuanced, proactive care beyond reactive sympathy while remaining transparently artificial.
Peer-Reviewed Research
Emergence of Affective-Emotive Resonance: A Paradigm Shift in Empathic Digital Humans
IEEE Xplore · Affective Computing · Human-AI Interaction · Persona Design · Relational Agents
Research Contribution
The question shifts from whether AI can be empathic to how beneficial and safe relational dynamics can be designed reliably.
Adapted from the published AER research thesis.
Panther
Research
Award
Institutional Recognition
2025–2026 Panther Innovations and Research Award
Awarded by Georgia State University in recognition of the Vivience AI Research Initiative’s interdisciplinary innovation and translational research impact.
Research Ecosystem
Research authority behind the character systems.
Peer-reviewed research, institutional provenance, interdisciplinary contributors and a defined programme for responsible commercial translation.
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Carnegie R1 Environment
Research operationalised within Georgia State University’s high-research-activity environment.
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Creative Media Industries Institute
Developed through digital-human research, graduate teaching and interdisciplinary production at CMII.
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CHAI Research Ecosystem
Developed within the Collaborative Human-AI Center research environment, a Department of Defense-sponsored Center of Excellence led by Georgia State University.
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Army Research Laboratory Context
The published AER research acknowledges sponsorship under Cooperative Agreement W911NF-23-2-0224.
The Research Collective
Interdisciplinary by design.
Research contributors across virtual production, computer science, game design, embodied animation, memory systems, ethical deployment and human-AI interaction.
Founder and Principal Investigator
Prof. Jeasy Sehgal
International filmmaker, creative technologist and researcher working across virtual production, digital humans, affective computing and human-AI interaction.
Former Professor of Practice in Virtual Production and VFX at Georgia State University’s Creative Media Industries Institute, originator of the Affective-Emotive Resonance framework, and founder of Vivience AI, Virtual Production Dojo and Graphic Monk Productions.
PANTHER INNOVATIONS AND RESEARCH AWARD
IEEE-PUBLISHED AER RESEARCH
FORMER PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE, CMII
UNREAL ENGINE GOLD AUTHORIZED INSTRUCTOR PARTNER
Amiya Burton
Graduate Research Assistant
Facial performance studies, affective expression and digital-human research.
Chrysander Mandragora
Graduate Research Assistant
Embodied animation, performance capture and motion-library development.
Jeremiah Long
Graduate Research Assistant
Contextual memory, retrieval architecture and longitudinal interaction research.
Ndeya Leveille
Research Assistant
Convai and Unreal Engine integration, Blueprint systems and prototype deployment.
Vaishnavi Adepu
Research Assistant, Computer Science
API assistants, agentic workflows and technical research support.
Elliott Kirkpatrick
Ethics and Deployment Research
Responsible deployment, ethical review and ExLAB implementation support.
Nicolas Salazar
Technology Lead
Technical vision, systems experimentation and digital-human production support.
Elias Treadway
Research Project Management
Research coordination, project management and interdisciplinary production support.
Research Architecture
Five programmes. One relational frontier.
RP01
Affective-Emotive Resonance and Relational AI
Measurement, evaluation and comparative testing
RP02
Embodied Digital Human Systems
Facial performance, body animation, gaze and prosody
RP03
Persona, Memory and Continuity Architectures
Scaffolding, identity consistency and longitudinal interaction
RP04
Ethics, Transparency and Duty of Care
Safeguarding, disclosure and relational risk
RP05
Applied Research and Commercial Translation
Education, enterprise, cultural and public-sector deployment
Technology Ecosystem
Vivience-authored. Partner-enabled.
Vivience remains responsible for the character strategy, visual identity, voice direction, persona architecture, knowledge design, relational behaviour, experience integration and client outcome. We select specialist platforms for the infrastructure each project requires.
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The Vivience Experience
Character identity, morphology, voice, personality, knowledge, behaviour, environment and audience experience.
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Vivience Relational Architecture
Persona scaffolding, Affective-Emotive Resonance, memory design, narrative logic, guardrails and evaluation.
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Production and Integration
MetaHuman, Character Creator, Unreal Engine, animation, performance, APIs, immersive deployment and pixel streaming.
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Technology Infrastructure
Convai services, selected LLMs, speech systems, cloud services and project-specific enterprise infrastructure.
Selected Conversational and Embodied-AI Infrastructure
Convai within the Vivience system
Convai services support selected conversational, knowledge, memory, narrative and embodied-interaction capabilities. Vivience authors and directs the complete character system around that infrastructure and remains accountable for the client experience.
Principle
Infrastructure may evolve. Character identity must remain coherent.
Project architecture is documented to preserve knowledge, persona specifications, creative assets, integration decisions and an orderly vendor-exit path where contractual and technical conditions permit.
Technology attribution: Convai is a third-party technology platform used within selected Vivience deployments. The presence of Convai or another supplier does not transfer responsibility for Vivience’s character authorship, relational architecture, implementation or governance. Any required “Powered by Convai” attribution is applied in accordance with the relevant licence or enterprise agreement.
Trust by Design
Transparent AI. Defensible data practice. European deployment choices.
Compliance is assessed across the complete Vivience deployment, not inherited from a single supplier. Each project is scoped according to its audience, data, jurisdiction, infrastructure and risk profile.
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AI Transparency
Public-facing characters clearly identify themselves as artificial digital humans. Article 50 disclosure, persistent labelling and synthetic-media notice are designed into applicable experiences.
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Privacy by Design
Controller and processor roles, data minimisation, lawful purpose, retention, user rights, data-processing terms and cross-border transfers are assessed for each deployment.
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Security Governance
Access control, encryption, supplier due diligence, incident response, retention and deletion requirements are defined according to the project and enterprise agreement.
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European Data Sovereignty
Architecture prioritises documented data location, subprocessor visibility, portability, customer control and reduced dependency where project requirements and provider options permit.
How We Work
A clear path from opportunity to deployment.
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Discovery
Define the audience, business or research objective, environment, constraints and success criteria.
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Character Blueprint
Develop the visual brief, character bible, persona architecture, voice direction and knowledge plan.
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Prototype
Create the character, implement the interaction stack and demonstrate the core experience.
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Pilot
Test with the intended audience, evaluate behaviour, refine content, interactions and safeguards.
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Deployment
Prepare the experience for the agreed platform, operations, governance, maintenance and future development.
Responsible Relational AI
Human-like presence requires transparent boundaries.
Every deployment is designed around the audience, setting and potential relational risks, not only technical capability.
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Transparent AI Identity
The character clearly identifies itself as an artificial digital human.
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Persona Boundaries
The personality, role, capabilities and prohibited behaviours are defined for the project.
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Knowledge Governance
Information sources, updates, access and limitations are documented and controlled.
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Human Escalation
Sensitive or high-risk interactions retain appropriate routes to human support.
Custom Digital Humans · Research · Deployment
Give your project a character no one else could own.
Discuss a bespoke digital human, research partnership, prototype, institutional pilot or commercial deployment with Vivience.
VIVIENCE AI
Vivience AI is an independent research and innovation initiative. Convai is a third-party platform used in selected deployments. References to Georgia State University, CMII, CHAI and the Army Research Laboratory describe documented research origins, research environments and sponsorship context and do not imply institutional or U.S. Government endorsement.