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ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Design and evaluation of expressive gesture synthesis for embodied conversational agents
To increase the believability and life-likeness of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), we introduce a behavior synthesis technique for the generation of expressive gesturing. A...
Björn Hartmann, Maurizio Mancini, Stép...
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An embodied conversational agent as a lifestyle advisor
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...
AAMAS
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Fully Embodied Conversational Avatars: Making Communicative Behaviors Autonomous
: 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...
Justine Cassell, Hannes Högni Vilhjálm...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
From Generating to Mining: Automatically Scripting Conversations Using Existing Online Sources
Hearing people argue opposing sides of an issue can be a useful way to understand the topic; however, these debates or conversations often don't exist. Unfortunately, generat...
Nathan D. Nichols, Lisa M. Gandy, Kristian J. Hamm...