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ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Designing multiparty interaction support in Elva, an embodied tour guide
Although social research into group interaction has flourished since the 20th century, the technology of embodied conversational agents for handling multiparty interaction is stil...
Jun Zheng, Xiang Yuan, Yam San Chee
ACII
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Intelligent Expressions of Emotions
We propose an architecture of an embodied conversational agent that takes into account two aspects of emotions: the emotions triggered by an event (the felt emotions) and the expre...
Magalie Ochs, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pel...
IVA
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Scrutinizing Natural Scenes: Controlling the Gaze of an Embodied Conversational Agent
We present here a system for controlling the eye gaze of a virtual embodied conversational agent able to perceive the physical environment in which it interacts. This system is ins...
Antoine Picot, Gérard Bailly, Fréd&e...
VR
2008
IEEE
169views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Conversational Pointing Gestures for Virtual Reality Interaction: Implications from an Empirical Study
Interaction in conversational interfaces strongly relies on the system’s capability to interpret the user’s references to objects via deictic expressions. Deictic gestures, es...
Thies Pfeiffer, Marc Erich Latoschik, Ipke Wachsmu...
IVA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 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...
ICMI
2009
Springer
94views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling culturally authentic style shifting with virtual peers
: We report on a new kind of culturally-authentic embodied conversational agent more in line with the ways that culture and ethnicity function in the real world. On the basis of th...
Justine Cassell, Kathleen Geraghty, Berto Gonzalez...
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Greta: an interactive expressive ECA system
We have developed a general purpose use and modular architecture of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) called Greta. Our 3D agent is able to communicate using verbal and nonve...
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Mauriz...
AGS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing Embodied Conversational Agents with Social and Emotional Capabilities
In this paper we present our current work on an embodied conversational agent for training medical bad news conversations and discuss the inspiration gained from previous work of o...
Bart van Straalen, Dirk Heylen, Mariët Theune...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone