Abstract
We present anew dialogue engine called Flipper 2.0 (Flipper) which aims to help developers of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) to quickly and flexibly create dialogues. Flipper provides a technically stable and robust dialogue management system to integrate with other components of ECAs such as behaviour realisers. We compare Flipper with state-of-the-art dialogue design systems. We describe the details of our dialogue engine, how it handles dialogue management and how it supports the authoring of dialogues. We demonstrate the use of the dialogue engine with examples of design patterns and discuss practical applications. Finally we give recommendations on the cases in which it is beneficial to use Flipper.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents |
| Publisher | ACM Press |
| Pages | 43-50 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Edition | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-6013-5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-6013-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 5 Nov 2018 |
| Event | 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018 - Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia Duration: 5 Nov 2018 → 8 Nov 2018 Conference number: 18 http://iva2018.westernsydney.edu.au/ |
Conference
| Conference | 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018 |
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| Abbreviated title | IVA |
| Country | Australia |
| City | Sydney |
| Period | 5/11/18 → 8/11/18 |
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Keywords
- Dialogue management
- Dialogue Engine
- Dialogue Design
- Pragmatics
- Embodied Conversational Agent
Cite this
van Waterschoot, J. B., Bruijnes, M., Flokstra, J., Reidsma, D., Davison, D. P., Theune, M., & Heylen, D. K. J. (2018). Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (18 ed., pp. 43-50). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267882