Embodied Conversational Agents with Environment-, Self- and Interaction-Awareness

Research on embodied conversational agents' reasoning and actions has mostly ignored the external environment. We argue 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 demo 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 in conversations.

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Science & Technology

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• Second Life
• Artificial Intelligence
• Virtual Agents
• Uruk Project