Smart avatars are virtual human representations controlled by real people. Given instructions interactively, smart avatars can act as autonomous or reactive agents. During a real-...
Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan M. Allbec...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
In this paper we describe Lokutor, a virtual human. Lokutor is a partially autonomous agent, inhabiting a 3D virtual environment. The agent can be controlled via natural language ...
Analogy is heavily used in instructional texts. We introduce the concept of analogical dialogue acts (ADAs), which represent the roles utterances play in instructional analogies. ...
— Current work is described wherein simplified versions of the Novamente Cognition Engine (NCE) are being used to control virtual agents in virtual worlds such as game engines an...