TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic generation of conversational behavior for multiple embodied virtual characters
T2 - 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008
AU - Breitfuss, Werner
AU - Prendinger, Helmut
AU - Ishizuka, Mitsuru
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this paper we presented the rules and algorithms we use to automatically generate non-verbal behavior like gestures and gaze for two embodied virtual agents. They allow us to transform a dialogue in text format into an agent behavior script enriched by eye gaze and conversational gesture behavior. The agents' gaze behavior is informed by theories of human face-to-face gaze behavior. Gestures are generated based on the analysis of linguistic and contextual information of the input text. Since all behaviors are generated automatically, our system offers content creators a convenient method to compose multimodal presentations, a task that would otherwise be very cumbersome and time consuming.
AB - In this paper we presented the rules and algorithms we use to automatically generate non-verbal behavior like gestures and gaze for two embodied virtual agents. They allow us to transform a dialogue in text format into an agent behavior script enriched by eye gaze and conversational gesture behavior. The agents' gaze behavior is informed by theories of human face-to-face gaze behavior. Gestures are generated based on the analysis of linguistic and contextual information of the input text. Since all behaviors are generated automatically, our system offers content creators a convenient method to compose multimodal presentations, a task that would otherwise be very cumbersome and time consuming.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_49
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_49
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52149109311
SN - 3540854827
SN - 9783540854821
VL - 5208 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 472
EP - 473
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Y2 - 1 September 2008 through 3 September 2008
ER -