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IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Policies for Embodied Virtual Agents through Demonstration
Although many powerful AI and machine learning techniques exist, it remains difficult to quickly create AI for embodied virtual agents that produces visually lifelike behavior. T...
Jonathan Dinerstein, Parris K. Egbert, Dan Ventura
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Multimodal Backchannels for Embodied Conversational Agents
One of the most desirable characteristics of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is the capability of interacting with users in a human-like manner. While listening to a user, a...
Elisabetta Bevacqua, Sathish Pammi, Sylwia Julia H...
AGS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Enhancing Embodied Conversational Agents with Social and Emotional Capabilities
In this paper we present our current work on an embodied conversational agent for training medical bad news conversations and discuss the inspiration gained from previous work of o...
Bart van Straalen, Dirk Heylen, Mariët Theune...
IUI
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
More than just a pretty face: affordances of embodiment
Prior research into embodied interface agents has found that users like them and find them engaging. In this paper, we argue that embodiment can serve an even stronger function if...
Justine Cassell, Timothy W. Bickmore, Hannes H&oum...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Controlling the focus of perceptual attention in embodied conversational agents
Youngjun Kim, Randall W. Hill Jr., David R. Traum