Building Discount ECAs for the Study of Rapport
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چکیده
In this paper, we report our experience in using off-the-shelf software and hardware to build embodied conversational agents in immersive environments. Our underlying research focuses on paralinguistic factors in building rapport between humans and ECAs, and conducting this research requires ECAs that can (a) produce sophisticated full-body animation and (b) interact with humans across multiple sessions. Our approach to building these ECAS includes motion capture for defining animations, blending of animations to produce more realistic and complex movements, recognizing compound gestures, and defining and implementing an XML-based interpreter for human-ECA interaction scenes.
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