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

Kiran Ijaz; Anton Bogdanovych; Simeon Simoff

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

Kiran Ijaz, Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon Simoff

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

Abstract

Research on embodied conversational agents’ reasoning and actions has mostly ignored the external environment. This papers 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 Thirty-Fourth Australasian Computer Science Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 113
Place of Publication	Darlinghurst
Publisher	Australian Computer Society
Pages	107-116
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781920682934
Publication status	Published - 17 Jan 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	34th Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC 2011 - Perth, Australia Duration: 17 Jan 2011 → 20 Jan 2011

Conference

Conference	34th Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC 2011
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth
Period	17/01/11 → 20/01/11

Keywords

Virtual Worlds
Artificial Intelligence
Embodied Agents

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Ijaz, K, Bogdanovych, A & Simoff, S 2011, Enhancing the believability of embodied conversational agents through environment-, self-and interaction-awareness. in Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Australasian Computer Science Conference: Volume 113. Australian Computer Society, Darlinghurst, pp. 107-116, 34th Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC 2011, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 17/01/11.

Enhancing the believability of embodied conversational agents through environment-, self-and interaction-awareness. / Ijaz, Kiran; Bogdanovych, Anton; Simoff, Simeon.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Australasian Computer Science Conference: Volume 113. Darlinghurst: Australian Computer Society, 2011. p. 107-116.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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