Talking to virtual humans: dialogue models and methodologies for embodied conversational agents

  • Authors:
  • David Traum

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California

  • Venue:
  • ZiF'06 Proceedings of the Embodied communication in humans and machines, 2nd ZiF research group international conference on Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

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.