Automatic generation of non-verbal behavior for agents in virtual worlds: A system for supporting multimodal conversations of bots and avatars

Werner Breitfuss*, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a system capable of automatically adding gestures to an embodied virtual character processing information from a simple text input. Gestures are generated based on the analysis of linguistic and contextual information of the input text. The system is embedded in the virtual world called second life and consists of an in world object and an off world server component that handles the analysis. Either a user controlled avatar or a non user controlled character can be used to display the gestures, that are timed with speech output from an Text-to-Speech system, and so show non verbal behavior without pushing the user to manually select it.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages153-161
Number of pages9
Volume5621 LNCS
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2009. Held as Part of HCI International 2009 - San Diego, CA
Duration: 2009 Jul 192009 Jul 24

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5621 LNCS
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Other

Other3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2009. Held as Part of HCI International 2009
CitySan Diego, CA
Period09/7/1909/7/24

Keywords

  • Animated Agent Systems
  • Embodied Virtual Characters
  • Multimodal Output Generation
  • Multimodal Presentations
  • Virtual Worlds

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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