For the past few years many new applications are being developed featuring interactive environments populated with autonomous virtual agents capable of acting according to their g...
: 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...
This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...
Electronic Institutions are regulated environments populated by autonomous software agents that perform tasks on behalf of users. 3D Electronic Institutions extend EI with 3D Virt...
As learning agents move from research labs to the real world, it is increasingly important that human users, including those without programming skills, be able to teach agents de...