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Graceful anytime interruptibility for virtual agents

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The demo will show two highly expressive virtual agents introducing the audience to a traditional Japanese room. The agent models and gestures have been created by a professional Japanese character designer. By adapting and extending an influential technique ("Verbs and Adverbs"), we added parameterized emotional expression and gesture interruptibility as new behaviors to increase agent believability, interactivity, and responsiveness. In the demo, users will be provided a simple interface to test the new features.

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  • (2008)Phase-based gesture motion parametrization and transitions for conversational agents with MPML3DProceedings of the 2nd international conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment10.5555/1363200.1363214(1-6)Online publication date: 8-Jan-2008

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ACE '07: Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
June 2007
324 pages
ISBN:9781595936400
DOI:10.1145/1255047
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  • (2008)Phase-based gesture motion parametrization and transitions for conversational agents with MPML3DProceedings of the 2nd international conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment10.5555/1363200.1363214(1-6)Online publication date: 8-Jan-2008

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