Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, by Jan M. Allbeck, Hadas Kress-Gazit (auth.), Jan Allbeck,

By Jan M. Allbeck, Hadas Kress-Gazit (auth.), Jan Allbeck, Norman Badler, Timothy Bickmore, Catherine Pelachaud, Alla Safonova (eds.)

th Welcome to the complaints of the ten foreign convention on clever digital brokers (IVA), held 20-22 September, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, united states. clever digital brokers are interactive characters that show human-like features and speak with people or with one another utilizing traditional human modalities resembling habit, gesture, and speech. IVAs are able to real-time belief, cognition, and motion that let them to take part in a dynamic actual and social surroundings. IVA 2010 is an interdisciplinary annual convention and the most discussion board for prese- ing examine on modeling, constructing, and comparing clever digital brokers with a spotlight on communicative skills and social habit. the improvement of IVAs - quires services in multimodal interplay and several other AI fields akin to cognitive modeling, making plans, imaginative and prescient, and average language processing. Computational types are usually in line with experimental experiences and theories of human-human and hum- robotic interplay; conversely, IVA know-how may supply fascinating classes for those fields. Visualizations of IVAs require special effects and animation te- niques, and in flip offer major realism challenge domain names for those fields. the belief of enticing IVAs is a tough job, so reusable modules and instruments are of serious worth. The fields of program diversity from robotic assistants, social simulation, and tutoring to video games and inventive exploration. the large demanding situations and variety of attainable purposes of IVAs have - sulted in a longtime annual conference.

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This makes comparison and integration across models difficult and reduces our ability to J. Allbeck et al. ): IVA 2010, LNAI 6356, pp. 35–41, 2010. J. Read et al. generalize. A further benefit is that because the motives are hierarchically structured, from more specific to more abstract and general, it allows the researcher to choose the level at which they want to operate, while still providing a structure for comparing across models. Finally, the current taxonomy also helps to address the perennial question of where the goals of an agent come from.

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For example, fire fighters not only learn how to operate a fire hose (task behavior), but also how they must communicate relevant information about the fire’s progress to their colleagues (team behavior). Usually, team skills are trained by exercises with a (potentially large) number of participants, each playing a dedicated role in a given scenario. Such large scale team exercises have a number of drawbacks. First, this type of team training requires ample resources (both human and financial) and is difficult to organize.

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