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A team of presentation agents for edutainment

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This paper presents the development of a presentation team that shows, explains and provides useful advices to children in the domain of "healthy nutrition". Agents of the team are endowed with different roles and personality traits so as to explain domain concepts from different viewpoints. In order to develop a system independent from the domain and the bodies of the agents, explanations and pieces of advice are generated and not statically scripted. The presentation plan is distributed to the various team actors and it is adapted to the characteristics of the interlocutor. To test the system and to evaluate the efficacy of the team in this domain we used a family of characters already present in the cartoon world: the Smurfies.

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
June 2009
347 pages
ISBN:9781605583952
DOI:10.1145/1551788
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  • (2021)Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for End-Users: Findings from a Participatory Machine Learning ShowKI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence10.1007/978-3-030-87626-5_19(257-270)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2021
  • (2017)Identifying Patterns in IDC ResearchProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/3078072.3079739(107-116)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2017

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