The Virtual Guide: A direction giving embodied conversational agent

Mariet Theune, D.H.W. Hofs, Marco van Kessel

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    Abstract

    We present the Virtual Guide, an embodied conversational agent that can give directions in a 3D virtual environment. We discuss how dialogue management, language generation and the generation of appropriate gestures are carried out in our system.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007)
    Place of PublicationBonn
    PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
    Pages2197-2200
    Number of pages4
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2007
    Event8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2007 - Antwerp, Belgium
    Duration: 27 Aug 2007 → 31 Aug 2007
    Conference number: 8
    https://www.interspeech2007.org/

    Publication series

    Name
    PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
    ISSN (Print)1990-9772

    Conference

    Conference8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2007
    Abbreviated titleINTERSPEECH
    CountryBelgium
    CityAntwerp
    Period27/08/07 → 31/08/07
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    Keywords

    • HMI-IA: Intelligent Agents

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