Functional Mark-up for Behaviour Planning: Theory and Practice

We approach the discussion of requirements for an FML from a high-level perspective on communication and the current state of developments in ECA communication. From a general point of view questions arise such as: Who is communicating to whom in which socio-cultural and situational context. What is the overall interaction history of the communication partners, and what is the history of the ongoing dialogue. What is the intention of the communication and what is its content. Transferring these questions to the ECA domain, at least leads to questions of modelling the virtual character’s persona including some notion of personality and emotion, and of modelling the communication act itself, be it in terms of real-time action and response or in terms of generating a complete dialogue scene in one go.