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

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

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

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

School of Computer, Data & Mathematical Sciences

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Abstract

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 language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 34th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011), Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 18-20 January 2011
Publisher	Australian Computer Society
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781920682934
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011) - Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

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Conference	Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011)
Period	1/01/11 → …

Keywords

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

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Ijaz, K, Bogdanovych, A , Simoff, SJ & Reynolds, M 2011, Enhancing the believability of embodied conversational agents through environment-, self- and interaction-awareness. in Proceedings of the 34th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011), Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 18-20 January 2011. Australian Computer Society, Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011), 1/01/11.

Enhancing the believability of embodied conversational agents through environment-, self- and interaction-awareness. / Ijaz, Kiran; Bogdanovych, Anton ; Simoff, Simeon J. et al.
Proceedings of the 34th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2011), Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 18-20 January 2011. Australian Computer Society, 2011.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper

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