Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. To achieve this, an agent must be able to interact with the lea...
W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Andrew Marshall, Cath...
In this paper we present the results of a comparative study that explores the potential benefits of using embodied ion to help children, aged 7 to 10, learn abstract concepts rela...
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...
In this paper, XfaceEd, our open source, platform independent tool for authoring 3D embodied conversational agents (ECAs) is presented. Following MPEG-4 Facial Animation (FA) stan...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...