Embodied conversational agents

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ANVIL - a generic annotation tool for multimodal dialogue (2001, background): “Researchers of embodied synthetic charactersaim at interfacing with the user in a more efficient, natural and entertaining fashion [3].”
Transformed Social Interaction: Decoupling Representation from Behavior and Form in Collaborative Virtual Environments (2004, background): “While there have been signiﬁcant advances in this regard (Cassell, 2000), the ability of an algorithm to process natural language, as well as generate believ-able responses, may still be many years off.”
The impact of avatar realism and eye gaze control on perceived quality of communication in a shared immersive virtual environment (2003, background): “Social responses to virtual humans have been studied in contexts ranging from small-group interactions in shared VEs [7] [21] , to interactions with interface agents capable of gaze behavior [26] , to fully embodied conversational agents [8] .”