Abstract. Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experiential learning. Intelligent virtual agents can cohabit virtual worlds with people and facilitate such lear...
We report on an effort to combine methods from storytelling and multimodal dialogue systems research to achieve flexible and immersive performances involving believable virtual c...
People engage in small talk and conversational storytelling to provide information in engaging ways and to serve interpersonal goals such as building rapport and credibility. Embo...
Virtual agents, to be expressive, not only need algorithms for displaying the subtleties of human behaviour, but also require environments and tools so that people can author them....
Chia-Jung Chan This paper presents a development of our comic generation system that automatically summarizes players' actions and interactions in the virtual world. The featu...