A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds

In this paper we present an implementation of a embodied conversational agent that serves as a virtual tour guide in Second Life. We show how we combined the abilities of a conversational agent with navigation in the world and present some preliminary evaluation results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: IVA
• Authors: Dusan Jan, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Jackie Morie, David R. Traum
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Conversational Agent, Embodied Conversational Agent, IVA 2009, Virtual Tour Guide