In pursuing the ultimate goal of enabling intelligent conversation with a virtual human, two key challenges are selecting nonverbal behaviors to implement and realizing those behav...
In this paper we present an architecture dedicated to an intelligently assisted educational tool which integrates within a unified framework software rational agents both at the m...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like computer generated characters that interact with human users in face-to-face multi-modal conversations. ECA systems are general...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Toyoaki Nishida, Aleksandra Cere...
We present Dialog Moves Markup Language (DMML): an extensible markup language (XML) representation of modality independent communicative acts of automated conversational agents. I...
In real world applications, agents - be they software agents or autonomous robots - inevitably face erroneous situations that have not been planned for. Re-planning can sometimes ...
Robert J. Ross, Rem W. Collier, Gregory M. P. O'Ha...