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04121 Working Group 2 – Design criteria, techniques and case studies for creating and evaluating interactive experiences for virtual humans Gratch, Jonathan Egges, Arjan Eliens, Anton Isbister, Katherine Marsella, Stacy Paiva, Ana Rist, Thomas ten Hagen, Paul How does one go about designing a human? With the rise in recent years of virtual humans this is no longer purely a philosophical question. Virtual humans are intelligent agents with a body, often a human-like graphical body, that interact verbally and non-verbally with human users on a variety of tasks and applications. Our working group approached this question from the perspective of interactivity. Specifically, how can one design effective interactive experiences involving a virtual human, and what constraints does this goal place on the form and function of an embodied conversational agent. Our group grappled with several related questions: What ideals should designers aspire to, what sources of theory and data will best lead to this goal and what methodologies can inform and validate the design process? A longer article (.pdf) summarizes the output of this WG and suggests a specific framework, borrowed from interactive media design, as a vehicle for advancing the state of interactive experiences with virtual humans. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Jonathan Gratch and Arjan Egges and Anton Eliens and Katherine Isbister and Stacy Marsella and Ana Paiva and Thomas Rist and Paul ten Hagen 2006 Is Part Of Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 4121, Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents (2006) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.04121.2 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4621 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.04121.2 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode