Talking to Charismatic Agents: General guidelines for conversational characters
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This paper provides an overview of the interactive autonomous agents currently being developed for the Charismatic system. The paper discusses the conversational requirements for agents within the system and provides an overview of the styles of conversational interaction which may be supported in similar systems where a user can talk to autonomous agents and avatars. The paper presents guidelines for features present in conversations between humans to help designers of interactive autonomous avatars think about the mechanisms that they may need to employ for more natural user-avatar communication. Initially envisaged as a one-agent-to-one-user dialogue system, extensions are discussed that allow many-to-many-agents dialogue and communication. Population of virtual worlds with such communicating agents could potentially lead to a more interesting interaction with the user as the system moves away from restricted performances to dynamic village scenes.
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