Towards autonomous characters for interactive media

Authors:
Daniel Ballin;Ruth Aylett;Carlos Delgado
Affiliations:
Radical Multimedia Laboratory, BTexaCT, Admin 2-5, BT Adastral Park, Ipswich IP5 3RE, UK;Centre for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK;Centre for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
Venue:
Intelligent agents for mobile and virtual media
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This chapter describes a project to develop virtual environment-based Teletubby characters, as in the children's television programme. The differences between the media are considered and the requirements for character development. The multi-level architecture adopted, BALSA (Behavioural Architecture for Life-like Synthetic Agents), is described in detail and future developments are proposed.