Virtual People Factory Video Addendum - IVA 09

This is a video addendum for the Human-centered Distributed Conversational Modeling publication presented at Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference 09 by Brent Rossen, a member of the Virtual Experiences Research Group. This video describes the Virtual People Factory application in more detail.

The publication can be found here: http://verg.cise.ufl.edu/publications.php

Abstract:
Currently, applications that focus on providing conversations with
virtual humans require extensive work to create robust conversational models.
We present a new approach called Human-centered Distributed Conversational
Modeling. Using this approach, users create conversational models in a distributed
manner. To do this, end-users interact with virtual humans to provide new
stimuli (questions and statements), and domain-specific experts (e.g. medical/
psychology educators) provide new virtual human responses. Using this
process, users become the primary developers of conversational models. We
tested our approach by creating an example application, Virtual People Factory.
Using Virtual People Factory, a pharmacy instructor and 186 pharmacy students
were able to create a robust conversational model in 15 hours. This is approximately
10% of the time typical in current approaches and results in more
comprehensive coverage of the conversational space. In addition, surveys demonstrate
the acceptability of this approach by both educators and students.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Virtual Human
• Academic Publication

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