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We present a way to mix the lower control of agents with the high level specifications of their goals. This paper addresses various topics required to animate virtual humans in a distributed way such as combining primary actions into tasks, using verbal communication between virtual humans and directing them with high level orders. Our models have been tested into a multi-languages / multi-modules application as described below.
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Caicedo, A., Monzani, JS., Thalmann, D. (2001). Communicative Autonomous Agents. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) Deformable Avatars. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 68. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-47002-8_19
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