The design of a generic framework for integrating ECA components

Authors:
Hung-Hsuan Huang;Toyoaki Nishida;Aleksandra Cerekovic;Igor S. Pandzic;Yukiko Nakano
Affiliations:
Kyoto University, Japan;Kyoto University, Japan;University of Zagreb, Croatia;University of Zagreb, Croatia;Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 1
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like computer generated characters that interact with human users in face-to-face multi-modal conversations. ECA systems are generally complex and difficult for individual research groups to develop. Therefore, if there was a common frame-work for connecting ECA functioning blocks seamlessly to an integrated system, redundant effort can be saved. This paper discusses the issues emerged in developing such a framework and introduces the design and preliminary results of our ongoing project, Generic ECA Framework.