Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents

Jelte Barachia van Waterschoot; Merijn  Bruijnes; Jan  Flokstra; Dennis  Reidsma; Daniel Patrick Davison; Mariet  Theune; Dirk K.J. Heylen

doi:10.1145/3267851.3267882

Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents

Jelte Barachia van Waterschoot, Merijn Bruijnes, Jan Flokstra, Dennis Reidsma, Daniel Patrick Davison, Mariet Theune, Dirk K.J. Heylen

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267882
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/

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Conference	18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018
Abbreviated title	IVA
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	5/11/18 → 8/11/18
Internet address	http://iva2018.westernsydney.edu.au/

Keywords

Dialogue management
Dialogue Engine
Dialogue Design
Pragmatics
Embodied Conversational Agent

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van Waterschoot, J. B. (Recipient), Bruijnes, M. (Recipient), Flokstra, J. (Recipient), Heylen, D. K. J. (Recipient), Davison, D. P. (Recipient), Reidsma, D. (Recipient) & Theune, M. (Recipient), 7 Nov 2018
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Personal and Personalized Conversations: Designing Agents Who Want To Connect With You
van Waterschoot, J. B., 2 Dec 2021, Enschede: University of Twente. 257 p.
Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT

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van Waterschoot, JB, Bruijnes, M, Flokstra, J , Reidsma, D , Davison, DP , Theune, M & Heylen, DKJ 2018, Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents. in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. 18 edn, ACM Press, pp. 43-50, 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 5/11/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267882

Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents. / van Waterschoot, Jelte Barachia; Bruijnes, Merijn ; Flokstra, Jan et al.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. 18. ed. ACM Press, 2018. p. 43-50.

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

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