This paper describes the design and implementation of the Office Assistant – an agent that interacts with visitors at the office door and manages the office owner’s schedule. ...
Actor agents in a virtual reality and interactive drama must deliver a believable performance. This is challenging and many issues need to be resolved. One prominent problem is tha...
Entertainment animatronics has traditionally been a discipline devoid of interactivity. Previously, we brought interactivity to this field by creating a suite of content authoring...
Seema Patel, William Bosley, David Culyba, Sabrina...
This paper introduces a new application area for agents in the computer interface: the support of human-human interaction. We discuss an interface agent prototype that is designed...
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...