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AAMAS
2012
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
A formal model of emotions for an empathic rational dialog agent
Recent research has shown that virtual agents expressing empathic emotions toward users have the potentiality to enhance human-machine interaction. To provide empathic capabilitie...
Magalie Ochs, David Sadek, Catherine Pelachaud
IEAAIE
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
A Cognitive Agent Model Using Inverse Mirroring for False Attribution of Own Actions to Other Agents
This paper presents a cognitive agent model capable of showing situations where self-generated actions are attributed to other agents, as, for example, for patients suffering from ...
Jan Treur, Muhammad Umair
TSI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Diva, une architecture pour le support des agents gestuels interactifs sur internet
In this paper, we present a Web-based framework for interactive deictic and sign language virtual agents. Our framework is a DOM-Integrated Virtual Agents architecture, which has b...
Annelies Braffort, Jean-Paul Sansonnet, Jean-Claud...
ICIDS
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Emohawk: Learning Virtual Characters by Doing
Emohawk is a narrative-based serious game designed to be a supportive tool for teaching basics of virtual agents development at universities and high-schools. Emohawk is built util...
Michal Bída, Cyril Brom
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Design and Evaluation of Explainable BDI Agents
It is widely acknowledged that providing explanations is an important capability of intelligent systems. Explanation capabilities are useful, for example, in scenario-based traini...
Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Ch...
IWC
2002
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13 years 11 months ago
Trust in information sources: seeking information from people, documents, and virtual agents
The notion of trust has been virtually absent from most work on how people assess and choose their information sources. Based on two empirical cases this study shows that software ...
Morten Hertzum, Hans H. K. Andersen, Verner Anders...
ENGL
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Forward Kinematics for Virtual Agents
—Realistic motion and natural-looking simulations require a thorough understanding of human movement control strategies. This work presents an initial developed on virtual agents...
Antonio Benitez, Guillermo de los Santos, Daniel V...
IJVR
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Reasoning about Action for Behavioral Animation of Intelligent Virtual Agents
Recent work in behavioral animation has taken impressive steps towards a virtual human. As for intelligent virtual agents, abbreviated "IVAs", the behaviors displayed in ...
Yisong Liu, Shan Zhong, Yongzhao Zhan
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Capturing and generating social behavior with the restaurant game
The Restaurant Game demonstrates an end-to-end system that captures and generates social behavior for virtual agents. Over 15,000 people have played The Restaurant Game, and we ha...
Jeff Orkin, Deb K. Roy
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Modeling collision avoidance behavior for virtual humans
In this paper, we present a new trajectory planning algorithm for virtual humans. Our approach focuses on implicit cooperation between multiple virtual agents in order to share th...
Stephen J. Guy, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha