The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges

Since the beginning of the SAIBA effort to unify key interfaces in the multi-modal behavior generation process, the Behavior Markup Language (BML) has both gained ground as an important component in many projects worldwide, and continues to undergo further refinement. This paper reports on the progress made in the last year in further developing BML. It discusses some of the key challenges identified that the effort is facing, and reviews a number of projects that already are making use of BML or support its use.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IVA
• Authors: Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Nathan Cantelmo, Justine Cassell, Nicolas Ech Chafai, Michael Kipp, Stefan Kopp, Maurizio Mancini, Stacy Marsella, Andrew N. Marshall, Catherine Pelachaud, Zsófia Ruttkay, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Herwin van Welbergen, Rick J. van der Werf
• Keywords: Behavior Markup Language, IVA 2007, Multi-modal Behavior Generation, SAIBA Effort