“Smart Animated Agents” by Badler, Funge, Blumberg, Cassell and Rickel
Conference:
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Entry Number: 24
Title:
- Smart Animated Agents
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Prerequisites
Experience with graphics, and/or particular application areas. Some experience with graphical modeling and animating human-like figures recommended but not essential.
Topics
Actions required for animated agents (faces, arms, legs, and eyes), knowledge and action representation, common sense and logical reasoning, agent architectures, learning, smart conversations, agents for pedagogical interaction, managing multi-agent interactions, and language and gesture as control modalities.
Description
As real-time characters become almost commonplace, the next challenge is to make them interact with humans through the modalities that we share among real people, especially language, gesture, and shared perceptions of the world. This course explored several ways to give real-time, animated, embodied characters more intelligence and communication skills so they can act, react, make decisions, and take initiatives. It also addressed how these skills can be applied in collaborative groups, interactive training, and smarter games.
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Contributed By:
- Mary Whitton
Location:
- Charles Babbage Institute Archives, University of Minnesota
