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IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Socially-Aware Memory for Companion Agents
Abstract. Memory is a vital capability for intelligent social Companions. In this paper, we introduce a simple memory model that allows a Companion to maintain a long-term relation...
Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett, Wan Ching Ho, Sibylle En...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Virtual Agents and 3D Virtual Worlds for Preserving and Simulating Cultures
Most researchers associate a culture with the knowledge that is somehow related to the environment inhabited by the knowledge carriers and results in producing highly distinct obje...
Anton Bogdanovych, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, Simeon ...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Model of Personality and Emotional Traits
Abstract. How do we construct credible personalities? The current SAL (Sensitive Artificial Listeners) characters were constructed intuitively and can be unconvincing. In addressin...
Margaret McRorie, Ian Sneddon, Etienne de Sevin, E...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Emotive Character Animations Created with Procedural Animation
Abstract. How to create effective body animations for virtual agents with emotions remains the state of the art for human animators and a great challenge for computer scientists. I...
Yueh-Hung Lin, Chia-Yang Liu, Hung-Wei Lee, Shwu-L...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Augmenting Gesture Animation with Motion Capture Data to Provide Full-Body Engagement
Abstract. Effective speakers engage their whole body when they gesture. It is difficult, however, to create such full body motion in animated agents while still supporting a large...
Pengcheng Luo, Michael Kipp, Michael Neff
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Impact of Different Embodied Agent-Feedback on Users' Behavior
Astrid von der Pütten, Christian Reipen, Antj...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
GNetIc - Using Bayesian Decision Networks for Iconic Gesture Generation
Expressing spatial information with iconic gestures is abundant in human communication and requires to transform a referent representation into resembling gestural form. This task ...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds
In this paper we present an implementation of a embodied conversational agent that serves as a virtual tour guide in Second Life. We show how we combined the abilities of a convers...
Dusan Jan, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Jackie Mor...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Predicting User Psychological Characteristics from Interactions with Empathetic Virtual Agents
Enabling virtual agents to quickly and accurately infer users’ psychological characteristics such as their personality could support a broad range of applications in education, t...
Jennifer L. Robison, Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. Mc...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Design and Implementation of a Virtual Salesclerk
This paper describes the design and implementation of a virtual agent that is capable of providing customers in a 3D online shop with advice. Based on a product knowledge base, a c...
Christopher Mumme, Niels Pinkwart, Frank Loll