Ada and grace: toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides

Authors:
William Swartout;David Traum;Ron Artstein;Dan Noren;Paul Debevec;Kerry Bronnenkant;Josh Williams;Anton Leuski;Shrikanth Narayanan;Diane Piepol;Chad Lane;Jacquelyn Morie;Priti Aggarwal;Matt Liewer;Jen-Yuan Chiang;Jillian Gerten;Selina Chu;Kyle White
Affiliations:
USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;Museum of Science, Boston;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;Museum of Science, Boston;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Institute for Creative Technologies;USC, Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory;USC, Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory
Venue:
IVA'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
Year:
2010

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Abstract

To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum guides that are in use at the Museum of Science, Boston. The characters use natural language interaction and have near photoreal appearance to increase and presents reports from museum staff on visitor reaction.