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ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A model of gaze for the purpose of emotional expression in virtual embodied agents
Currently, state of the art virtual agents lack the ability to display emotion as seen in actual humans, or even in hand-animated characters. One reason for the emotional inexpres...
Brent J. Lance, Stacy Marsella
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
An empathic virtual dialog agent to improve human-machine interaction
Recent research has shown that virtual agents expressing empathic emotions toward users have the potentiality to enhance human-machine interaction. To identify under which circums...
Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud, David Sadek
ACMACE
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Shadow agent: a new type of virtual agent
The shadow agent is a new type of intelligent virtual agent exploiting the metaphor of the shadow as a medium. The core of the shadow agent is a behavioral architecture inspired b...
Philippe Pasquier, Eunjung Han, Kirak Kim, Keechul...
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Groovy Virtual Drumming Agent
This paper presents an architecture for an intelligent virtual agent that imitates human drumming behaviour. Through imitation, the agent models the user-specific variations that ...
Axel Tidemann, Pinar Öztürk, Yiannis Dem...
CIA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Design and Implementation of Agent Community Based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Method
This paper presents an agent community based peer-to-peer information retrieval method called ACP2P method[16] and discusses the experimental results of the method. The ACP2P metho...
Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Akihiro Kogo, Mak...
AP2PC
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
ACP2P: Agent Community Based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval
This paper proposes an agent community based information retrieval method, which uses agent communities to manage and look up information related to users. An agent works as a dele...
Tsunenori Mine, Daisuke Matsuno, Akihiro Kogo, Mak...
IVA
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of a virtual agent that explains health documents to patients. The prevalence and impact of low health literacy is presented as a motivation f...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Michael K. ...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied AIs with human-level linguistic capability
— 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...
Ben Goertzel
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
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