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Talking to Virtual Humans: Dialogue Models and Methodologies for Embodied Conversational Agents

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Virtual Humans are artificial characters who look and act like humans, but inhabit a simulated environment. One important aspect of many virtual humans is their communicative dialogue ability. In this paper we outline a methodology for study of dialogue behavior and construction of virtual humans. We also consider three architectures for different types of virtual humans that have been built at the Institute for Creative Technologies.

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Traum, D. (2008). Talking to Virtual Humans: Dialogue Models and Methodologies for Embodied Conversational Agents. In: Wachsmuth, I., Knoblich, G. (eds) Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4930. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79037-2_16

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