The Virtual Guide: A direction giving embodied conversational agent

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

The Virtual Guide: A direction giving embodied conversational agent

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

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

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007)
Place of Publication	Bonn
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	2197-2200
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - Aug 2007
Event	8th 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/

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Publisher	International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISSN (Print)	1990-9772

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Conference	8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2007
Abbreviated title	INTERSPEECH
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Antwerp
Period	27/08/07 → 31/08/07
Internet address	https://www.interspeech2007.org/

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HMI-IA: Intelligent Agents

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Theune, M, Hofs, DHW & van Kessel, M 2007, The Virtual Guide: A direction giving embodied conversational agent. in Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007). International Speech Communication Association, Bonn, pp. 2197-2200, 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, 27/08/07.

The Virtual Guide: A direction giving embodied conversational agent. / Theune, Mariet; Hofs, D.H.W.; van Kessel, Marco.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007). Bonn: International Speech Communication Association, 2007. p. 2197-2200.

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

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