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Behavioural Virtual Agents

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We discuss the application of behavioural architectures, in the robotic sense, to virtual agents. ‘Virtual Teletubbies’ are used as an example of the issues involved. we conclude that the use of such architectures has implications for the whole style in which a virtual world is modelled.

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  1. Centre for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT, UK

    Ruth Aylett

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    Michael J. Wooldridge

  2. Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Manuela Veloso

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Aylett, R. (1999). Behavioural Virtual Agents. In: Wooldridge, M.J., Veloso, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Today. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1600. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48317-9_1

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