Enhancing the believability of embodied conversational agents through environment-, self- and interaction-awareness

Kiran Ijaz, Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon J. Simoff, Mark Reynolds

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[Research on embodied conversational agents' reasoning and actions has mostly ignored the external environment. This paper argues that believability of such agents is tightly connected with their ability to relate to the environment during a conversation. This ability, defined as awareness believability, is formalised in terms of three components - environment-, self- and interaction-awareness. The paper presents a method enabling virtual agents to reason about their environment, understand the interaction capabilities of other participants, own goals and current state of the environment, as well as to include these elements into conversations. We present the implementation of the method and a case study, which demonstrates that such abilities improve the overall believability of virtual agents.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 34th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011), Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 18-20 January 2011
    PublisherAustralian Computer Society
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)9781920682934
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventAustralasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011) -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceAustralasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011)
    Period1/01/11 → …

    Keywords

    • intelligent agents (computer software)
    • artificial intelligence
    • virtual reality
    • human-computer interaction

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