Abstract: Avatar animation may be enhanced to reflect emotion and other human traits when animated to read messages received from other users or other messages. A message may be analyzed to determine visual features associated with data in the message. The visual features may be depicted graphically by the avatar to create enhanced avatar animation. A text-based message may include indicators, such as punctuation, font, words, graphics, and/or other information, which may be extracted to create the visual features. This information may be used to select visual features as special animation, which may be implemented in animation of the avatar. Examples of visual features include animations of laugher, smiling, clapping, whistling, and/or other animations.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to migrating an avatar from a first computing device to a second computing device during a user interaction with the avatar, such as during a user-support session with the avatar. Migration includes depicting the avatar on the first device at a first time and then terminating the avatar on the first device and displaying the avatar on a second, different device at a second time. In some embodiments, the avatar may be migrated along with content. The first device may transfer data to the second device using a peer-to-peer transfer. In some embodiments, a remote computing device may facilitate the migration of the avatar and content between devices.