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ECA Perspectives -- Requirements, Applications, Technology
Intelligent Multimedia Group
Anton Eliëns, Zhisheng Huang, Johan F. Hoorn, Cees Visser
Keywords: embodied agents, virtual environments, rich media.
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Abstract
In the last years we have developed a platform for the
realization of embodied (conversational) agents,
in a distributed logic programming framework.
In this paper we will present an overview of our work,
by discussing the requirements that acted as our guidelines
for design decisions during development,
some of the applications that have served as target
demonstrators for developing and testing new functionality,
and the (distributed logic programming) technology which we used for
the realization of the platform and the implementation
of our STEP scripting language.
Although the focus of our paper will primarily be our
own DLP+X3D platform, we believe that our discussion along
the perspectives of requirements, applications and technology
might be more generally worthwhile in establishing the
relative merits of the operational use of ECA-technology.
At the end of this paper, we will moreover provide
some hints of how to approach the experimental validation
of the (possible) benefits of embodied conversational
agents in user applications.
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