TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing the believability of embodied conversational agents through environment-, self- and interaction-awareness
AU - Ijaz, Kiran
AU - Bogdanovych, Anton
AU - Simo, Simeon
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Research on embodied conversational agents' reasoning and actions has mostly ignored the external environment. This papers 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.
AB - Research on embodied conversational agents' reasoning and actions has mostly ignored the external environment. This papers 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.
KW - Artificial intelligence
KW - Embodied agents
KW - Virtual worlds
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867553530&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84867553530
SN - 9781920682934
T3 - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series
SP - 107
EP - 116
BT - Computer Science 2011 - Proceedings of the 34th Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC 2011
T2 - 34th Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC 2011
Y2 - 17 January 2011 through 20 January 2011
ER -