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04121 Working Group 2 – Design criteria, techniques and case studies for creating and evaluating interactive experiences for virtual humans

Authors: Jonathan Gratch, Arjan Egges, Anton Eliens, Katherine Isbister, Stacy Marsella, Ana Paiva, Thomas Rist, and Paul ten Hagen

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 4121, Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents (2006)

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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.

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Jonathan Gratch, Arjan Egges, Anton Eliens, Katherine Isbister, Stacy Marsella, Ana Paiva, Thomas Rist, and Paul ten Hagen. 04121 Working Group 2 – Design criteria, techniques and case studies for creating and evaluating interactive experiences for virtual humans. In Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 4121, pp. 1-6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{gratch_et_al:DagSemProc.04121.2,
  author =	{Gratch, Jonathan and Egges, Arjan and Eliens, Anton and Isbister, Katherine and Marsella, Stacy and Paiva, Ana and Rist, Thomas and ten Hagen, Paul},
  title =	{{04121 Working Group 2 – Design criteria, techniques and case studies for creating and evaluating interactive experiences for virtual humans}},
  booktitle =	{Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents},
  pages =	{1--6},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{4121},
  editor =	{Zsofia Ruttkay and Elisabeth Andr\'{e} and W. Lewis Johnson and Catherine Pelachaud},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.04121.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4621},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.04121.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: }
}

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