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An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014)

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To help guide design and development of embodied conversational agents, this study reviews the evolving qualities of naturalistic agents by identifying and tracking their most relevant features. The study extends prior taxonomies of characteristics of ECAs, developing a rubric that distinguishes agents’ visual and functional characteristics. The study applies the rubric to 15 agents representing different genres of games, distinguishing agents in terms of their naturalistic qualities. The study explores changes in qualities of agents as a function of time.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, TX, 79968-0518, USA

    Adriana Camacho, Alex Rayon, Ivan Gris & David Novick

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  1. College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, 202 West Village H, 360 Huntington Avenue, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

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  2. Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 01609, Worcester, MA, USA

    Candace Sidner

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Camacho, A., Rayon, A., Gris, I., Novick, D. (2014). An Exploratory Analysis of ECA Characteristics. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_12

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