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Intelligent Virtual Agents

Description: ----------------------- IVA 2011 CFP ----------------------- Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents http://iva2011.ru.is September 15-17, 2011 Reykjavik, Iceland ------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as speech and gesture. They are capable of realtime perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2011 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. In addition to presentations ...

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Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters

Description: ************************************************************************** Workshop on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters to take place during 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010) 10-14 May 2010, Toronto, Canada http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/AAMAS-ECA-10.html *************************************************************************** Despite advances in enhancing the expressivity of embodied conversational agents (ECAs), communication with ECAs remains an unnatural experience due to an often encountered asymmetry in communication channels, in which user input modalities tend to be less sophisticated due to the limitation of input processing. This is becoming a limiting factor as virtual actors become an essential element of computer games, intelligent tutoring systems and new media such as Interactive ...

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