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CG
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Where computers disappear, virtual humans appear
In this paper, we survey the role of virtual humans (or embodied conversational agents) in smart and ambient intelligence environments. Research in this area can profit from resea...
Anton Nijholt
HCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding RUTH: Creating Believable Behaviors for a Virtual Human Under Uncertainty
In pursuing the ultimate goal of enabling intelligent conversation with a virtual human, two key challenges are selecting nonverbal behaviors to implement and realizing those behav...
Insuk Oh, Matthew Stone
IUI
2005
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Animating an interactive conversational character for an educational game system
Within the framework of the project NICE (Natural Interactive Communication for Edutainment) [2], we have been developing an educational and entertaining computer game that allows...
Andrea Corradini, Manish Mehta, Niels Ole Bernsen,...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
ICMI
2004
Springer
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14 years 23 days ago
Evaluation of spoken multimodal conversation
Spoken multimodal dialogue systems in which users address faceonly or embodied interface agents have been gaining ground in research for some time. Although most systems are still...
Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær