Whilst techniques for narrative generation and agent behaviour have made significant progress in recent years, natural language processing remains a bottleneck hampering the scala...
Fred Charles, David Pizzi, Marc Cavazza, Thurid Vo...
In earlier studies, user involvement with an embodied software agent and willingness to use that agent were partially determined by the aesthetics of the design and the moral fiber...
Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Johan F. ...
Using synthetic characters to support children’s personal, social and emotional education requires that the emotional response elicited from the children is that desired by educa...
Lynne E. Hall, Sarah Woods, Marc Hall, Dieter Wolk...
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...