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Ada and grace: toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides

Authors:

William Swartout,

Kerry Bronnenkant,

Shrikanth Narayanan,

Jacquelyn Morie,

Priti Aggarwal,

Jen-Yuan Chiang,

Jillian Gerten,

Kyle WhiteAuthors Info & Claims

IVA'10: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents

Pages 286 - 300

Published: 20 September 2010 Publication History

Abstract

To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum guides that are in use at the Museum of Science, Boston. The characters use natural language interaction and have near photoreal appearance to increase and presents reports from museum staff on visitor reaction.

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IVA'10: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents

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Editors:
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George Mason University, Fairfax
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Norman Badler
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Timothy Bickmore
Northeastern University, Boston
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Catherine Pelachaud
CNRS, LTCI, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France
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