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This chapter describes a project to develop virtual environment-based Teletubby characters, as in the children’s television programme. The differences between the media are considered and the requirements for character development. The multi-level architecture adopted, BALSA (Behavioural Architecture for Life-like Synthetic Agents), is described in detail and future developments are proposed.
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Ballin, D., Aylett, R., Delgado, C. (2002). Towards Autonomous Characters for Interactive Media. In: Earnshaw, R., Vince, J. (eds) Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0677-7_5
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