: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
We propose an operational model that combines message meaning and conversational structure in one comprehensive approach. Our long-term research goal is to lay down principles unit...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
Abstract. The challenge of making a virtual world believable includes a requirement for AI entities which autonomously react to a dynamic environment. After the breakthroughs in be...
In this paper, we explore the concept of dual–purpose speech: speech that is socially appropriate in the context of a human– to–human conversation which also provides meanin...
Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Corn...
Abstract. During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfa...