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12608.4 Audio-visual and Multimodal Speech Systems - Benoit, Martin, Pelachaud, Martin..(Correct)
ion Signal Level Semantic Level Figure 13: Multimodal Design Space (adapted from [224]) system in the design space is the pivotal center of its features. According to the characterization of an intera... / of speech and face synthesis synthetic agents force feedback and br sound Talking faces and synthetic agents in multimodal speech systems
3509.1 Connecting Planning And Acting Via Object-Specific Reasoning - Levison (1996)(Correct)
Instructions from a high-level planner are in general too abstract for a behavioral simulator
to execute. In this dissertation I describe an intermediate reasoning system -- the
Object-Specific Reason... / planners to instruct synthetic agents with the same task-action br Introduction Assume we have a synthetic agent equipped with set of
2381.3 Communication in Reactive Multiagent Robotic Systems - Balch, Arkin (1994)(Correct)
Multiple cooperating robots are able to complete many tasks more quickly and reliably than one robot alone. Communication between the robots can multiply their capabilities and effectiveness, but to w... / evolution of communication in synthetic agents. They have demonstrated that
2201.6 Animated Agents for Procedural Training in Virtual Reality.. - Rickel, Johnson (1998)(Correct)
This paper describes Steve, an animated agent that helps students learn to perform
physical, procedural tasks. The student and Steve cohabit a three-dimensional,
simulated mock-up of the student's wor... / human-like interactions among synthetic agents and humans than desktop
1707.2 Autonomous Communicative Behaviors in Avatars - --> (1997)(Correct)
Most networked virtual communities, such as MUDs (Multi-User Domains), where people
meet in a virtual place to socialize and build worlds, have until recently mostly been text-based.
However, such env... /
1670.2 Task-Oriented Collaboration with Embodied Agents in Virtual Worlds - Rickel, Johnson (2000)(Correct)
Introduction
We are working toward animated agents that can collaborate with human
students in virtual worlds. The agent's objective is to help students learn to
perform physical, procedural tasks, s... / humanlike interactions among synthetic agents and humans than typical br between students and synthetic agents in virtual environments.
1661.3 A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions - Oliver, Rosario, Pentland (1999)(Correct)
We describe a real-time computer vision and machine learning
system for modeling and recognizing human behaviors in a visual
surveillance task. The system is particularly concerned with detecting
wh... / behaviors of interest using synthetic agents. Simulation with the br experimental results with both synthetic agent data and real video data and
1570.9 Improvisational Synthetic Actors with Flexible Personalities - Rousseau, Hayes-Roth (1997)(Correct)
We provide synthetic agents as intelligent actors that can improvise their
behaviors in interactive environments without detailed planning, just as human
improvisers do. Their behavior is based on the... / Abstract We provide synthetic agents as intelligent actors that br demands. We provide synthetic agents as intelligent actors that
1282.2 Task-Oriented Dialogs with Animated Agents in Virtual Reality - Rickel, Johnson (1998)(Correct)
We are working towards animated agents that can
carry on tutorial, task-oriented dialogs with human
students. The agent's objective is to help students
learn to perform physical, procedural tasks, suc... / human-like interactions among synthetic agents and humans than desktop br dialogs between students and synthetic agents in virtual environments.
1256.7 Eye communication in a conversational 3D synthetic agent - Poggi, Pelachaud, De Rosis (2000)(Correct)
this paper, we
concentrate on the study and generation of coordinated
linguistic and gaze communicative acts. In this view
we analyse gaze signals according to their functional
meaning rather than to ... / in a conversational D synthetic agent Isabella Poggi Catherine br the construction of believable synthetic agents. In building autonomous
1196.0 BodyChat: Autonomous Communicative Behaviors in Avatars - -->, Cassell (1998)(Correct)
Although avatars may resemble animated
communicating interface agents, they have for
the most part not profited from recent
research into autonomous systems. In
particular, even though avatars functio... / . Keywords Avatars synthetic agents communicative behaviors
1165.3 Modeling Emotion-Based Decision-Making - Velásquez(Correct)
This paper presents a computational approach to EmotionBased
Decision-Making that models important aspects of
emotional processing and integrates these with other models
of perception, motivation, beh... / agents including both synthetic agents and physical robots. br for physical agents and other synthetic agents that at least simulate
1022.1 When Robots Weep: Emotional Memories and Decision-Making - Velásquez (1998)(Correct)
We describe an agent architecture that integrates emotions,
drives, and behaviors, and that focuses on modeling some of
the aspects of emotions as fundamental components within
the process of decision... / to develop and control several synthetic agents and which is currently being br means to create believable synthetic agents Bates Blumberg
970.7 The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge 97 - Kitano, Tambe, Stone (1997)(Correct)
RoboCup Challenge offers a set of challenges for intelligent agent researchers using a friendly competition in a dynamic, real-time, multiagent domain. While RoboCup in general envisions longer range ... / The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge Hiroaki br an agent a physical robot or a synthetic agent to play soccer reasonably
923.2 Modeling Emotions and Other Motivations in Synthetic Agents - Velásquez (1997)(Correct)
We present Cathexis, a distributed, computational model
which offers an alternative approach to model the dynamic
nature of different affective phenomena, such as emotions,
moods and temperaments, and... / and Other Motivations in Synthetic Agents Juan D. Velsquez MIT br including entertainment e.g. synthetic agents for interactive drama video
922.2 A Social-Psychological Model for Synthetic Actors - Rousseau, Hayes-Roth (1997)(Correct)
In the Virtual Theater project, we provide synthetic actors that portray fictive characters by improvising
their behavior in a multimedia environment. Actors are either autonomous or avatars directed ... / paper Application area synthetic agents Technical issues models br models of personality synthetic agents believability
829.2 An Architecture for Co-Habited Virtual Worlds - Jung, Lind, Gerber, Schillo, Funk..(Correct)
As a recent trend, research in Distributed Artificial Intelligence,
Distributed Interactive Simulation, and Virtual
Reality shares a new centre of interest which we call cohabited
virtual worlds (CHV... / worlds CHVW Herein synthetic agents and human-controlled br CHVW In such worlds synthetic agents and avatars agents that
794.7 An Instructor's Assistant for Team-Training in dynamic multi-agent.. - Stacy Marsella Lewis (1998)(Correct)
Teams of people operating in highly dynamic, multi-agent environments
must learn to deal with rapid and unpredictable turns of events.
Simulation-based training environments inhabited by synthetic age... / environments inhabited by synthetic agents can be effective in br Virtual worlds inhabited by synthetic agents are increasingly being used
770.2 Personality in Synthetic Agents - Rousseau, Hayes-Roth (1996)(Correct)
ID: A043 Personality in Synthetic Agents Rousseau, Daniel KSL, Stanford University Hayes-Roth, Barbara KSL, Stanford University Abstract Personality characterizes an individual through a set of psycho... / No. KSL - Personality in Synthetic Agents by Daniel Rousseau br ID A Personality in Synthetic Agents Rousseau Daniel KSL
764.7 Towards Social Comparison for Failure Detection: Extended Abstract - Kaminka, A., Tambe, M(Correct)
Gal A. Kaminka and Milind Tambe
Computer Science Department and Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 822-1511 {galk, tam... / theories of this process for synthetic agents for the purposes of br this process in synthetic agents for the purpose of improving
753.7 Emile: Marshalling Passions in Training and Education - Gratch (2000)(Correct)
Emotional reasoning can be an important contribution to auto-
mated tutoring and training systems. This paper describes mile, a
model of emotional reasoning that builds upon existing approaches
and si... / responses of other human or synthetic agents guide the presentation of
725.1 Acting in Character - Hayes-Roth, van Gent, Huber(Correct)
this paper, we report an empirical study of the model outlined above in the context of a
classic master-servant scenario. We have been strongly influenced in our choice and treatment of
this material ... / personality in the context of synthetic agents that function as actors br personality and character in synthetic agents and actors. Before
672.2 Interactive Pedagogical Drama - Marsella, Johnson, LaBore (2000)(Correct)
This paper describes an agent-based approach to realizing
interactive pedagogical drama. Characters choose their actions
autonomously, while director and cinematographer agents manage
the action and i... / motivation or personality synthetic agents . INTRODUCTION People
659.2 Agents in Annotated Worlds - Doyle, Hayes-Roth (1997)(Correct)
Virtual worlds offer great potential as environments for education, entertainment, and collaborative work. Agents that function effectively in heterogeneous virtual spaces must have the ability to acq... / human-like qualities of synthetic agents synthetic agents . br of synthetic agents synthetic agents . Introduction
654.6 On Situated Reasoning in Multi-Agent Systems - Prokopenko (1999)(Correct)
In this paper we aim to analyse relationships between
different approaches to formalising interactivity in dynamic
systems. Approaches developed in the framework of
Reasoning about Action are mostly l... / suitable for situated synthetic agents. Then we try to extend the br uniform specifications of synthetic agents and facilitate a rigorous
637.8 An Instructor's Assistant for Team-Training in Dynamic Multi-agent.. - Stacy Marsella Lewis (1998)(Correct)
The training of teams in highly dynamic, multi-agent virtual
worlds places a heavy demand on an instructor. We address the instructor
's problem with the PuppetMaster. The PuppetMaster manages a
... / environments inhabited by synthetic agents can be e ective in providing br be inhabited bymultitudes of synthetic agents which ideally exhibit the
633.4 Personality in Computer Characters - Rousseau (1996)(Correct)
Personality characterizes an individual through a set of traits
that influence his or her behavior. We propose a model of
personality that can be used by intelligent, automated actors
able to improvis... /
630.7 Two Fielded Teams and Two Experts: A RoboCup Challenge Response from.. - Milind Tambe(Correct)
The RoboCup (robot world-cup soccer) effort, initiated
to stimulate research in multi-agents and
robotics, has blossomed into a significant effort
of international proportions. RoboCup is simultaneous... / was issued for the RoboCup synthetic agents covering areas of br was issued for the RoboCup synthetic agents Kitano et al. This
583.1 Social Role Awareness in Animated Agents - Prendinger, Ishizuka (2001)(Correct)
This paper promotes social role awareness as a desirable
capability of animated agents, that are by now strong affective
reasoners, but otherwise often lack the social competence
observed with humans.... / human-like qualities of synthetic agents social dimension in
581.4 Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions - Oliver, Rosario, Pentland (1998)(Correct)
We describe a real-time computer vision and machine learning system
for modeling and recognizing human actions and interactions.
Two different domains are explored: recognition of two-handed
motions i... / data we demonstrate that synthetic agents' Alife-style agents can be br addition we have developed a synthetic agent or Alife modeling
567.0 Building Cognitively Rich Agents Using The Sim Agent Toolkit - Sloman, Logan (1999)(Correct)
individual
agents increases. This is particularly relevant to work on agents which must cooperate
to perform tasks requiring planning, problem solving, learning, opportunistic redirection of
plans, a... / b.s.logang cs.bham.ac.uk Synthetic agents with varying degrees of br a desire for more interesting synthetic agents believable agents'in
565.3 A Synthetic Agent System for Bayesian Modeling Human Interactions - Rosario, Oliver, Pentland (1999)(Correct)
When building statistical machine learning models from real data
one of the most frequently encountered difficulties is the limited amount
of training data compared to what is needed by the specific l... / ACM Autonomous Agents A Synthetic Agent System for Bayesian Modeling br humans. More specifically our synthetic agents mimic several human
537.1 Connecting Planning and Acting: Towards an Architecture for.. - Libby Levison (1995)(Correct)
Controlling synthetic agents requires specifying details of the desired actions
which are rarely specified in high-level commands. And while simulation or
robotic systems provide a motion language for... / Abstract Controlling synthetic agents requires specifying details br pickup fred glass current synthetic agents cannot. Asking the
495.0 Meaning for Observers and Agents - Nehaniv (1999)(Correct)
Claude Shannon formalized the notion of information
transmission rate and capacity for pre-existing channels.
Wittgenstein in his later work insisted that linguistic
meaning be defined in terms of use... /
490.1 Varieties of Affect and the CogAff Architecture Schema - Sloman (2001)(Correct)
In the last decade and a half, the amount of work on affect in general and emotion in particular has grown, in empirical
psychology, cognitive science and AI, both for scientific purposes and for the... / entertainments where synthetic agents e.g. software agents or
472.2 Evaluating Humanoid Synthetic Agents in E-Retail Applications - Helen Mcbreen Mervyn (2001)(Correct)
This paper presents the results of three experiments designed to evaluate the effectiveness and user
acceptability of humanoid synthetic agents in electronic retail applications. In the first experime... / Synthetic Agents Evaluating Humanoid br Evaluating Humanoid Synthetic Agents in E-Retail Applications
452.5 Statistical Modeling of Human Interactions - Nuria Oliver Barbara (1998)(Correct)
In this paper we describe a real-time computer vision
and machine learning system for modeling and
recognizing human behaviors in a visual surveillance
task. The system is particularly concerned with ... / and accurately. Finally a synthetic agent training system is used to br behaviors of interest using synthetic agents. Simulation with the agents
391.9 Verbal and nonverbal discourse planning - De Carolis, Pelachaud, Poggi (2000)(Correct)
this paper we first describe our enriched discourse generator explaining the 2 sets of rules (trigger
and regulation) we have added. We also review the di#erent types of gaze communicative acts. Final... / in a conversational d synthetic agent. Special Issue on Behavior
391.6 Winograd, T. And Flores, F. - Understanding Computers And(Correct)
ion: How Experts' Representations
Facilitate Reasoning In Feltovich, Paul J., Ford, Kenneth, M. and Hoffman, Robert R. (eds)
Expertise in Context: Human and Machine AAAI Press/MIT Press, Cambridge, M... / and Other Motivations in Synthetic Agents In Proceedings of the
369.9 STEVE: A Pedagogical Agent for Virtual Reality - Rickel, Johnson (1998)(Correct)
We are exploring the use of virtual reality for training people
how to perform tasks, such as operating and maintaining
complex equipment. This video describes Steve, an agent we
are developing that a... / human-like interactions among synthetic agents and humans than desktop
320.6 Overview of RoboCup-98 - Asada, Veloso, Tambe, Noda, Kitano.. (2000)(Correct)
The Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences (RoboCup) are a series
of competitions and events designed to promote the full integration of
AI and robotics research. Following the first RoboCup, he... / RoboCup initiative. For the synthetic agents in the simulation league the br and Minoru Asada. The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge . In Hiroaki
260.1 Mixed Initiative in Interactions between Software Agents - Daniel Rousseau(Correct)
We have been working during the past several years on
techniques for modeling the way that software agents can
take and release the initiative while interacting together.
We are interested in building... / In interactions between synthetic agents or between synthetic agents br synthetic agents or between synthetic agents and persons it is the same.
215.4 Some Considerations About Embodied Agents - Catherine Pelachaud University (2000)(Correct)
Introduction
As computers are being more and more part of our world we feel the urgent need of proper user interface
to interact with. The use of command lines typed on a keyboard are more and more o... / This is especially true as synthetic agents are becoming more and more br in a conversational d synthetic agent. Special Issue on Behavior
200.3 Affective vs. Deliberative Agent Control - Scheutz, Logan(Correct)
In this paper, we outline a research strategy for analysing the properties of different agent architectures, in particular
the cognitive and affective states/processes they can support. We demonstrat... / control systems of artificial agents synthetic or robotic are not yet
185.7 Applying Artificial Intelligence to Virtual Reality: Intelligent.. - Aylett, Luck (2000)(Correct)
Reearch into virtual environments on the one hand and artificial intelligence and artificial life
on the other has largely been carried out by two different groups of people with different preoccupat... / beginning to be tackled while synthetic agents virtual humans and computer br areas. This includes synthetic agents virtual actors virtual
132.1 What Sort Of Control System Is Able To Have A Personality? - Sloman (1995)(Correct)
This paper outlines a design-based methodology for the study of mind as a part of
the broad discipline of Artificial Intelligence. Within that framework some architectural
requirements for human-like ... / of these ideas with work on synthetic agents inhabiting virtual reality br to understand how to give a synthetic agent a personality we need to
105.2 Graphical Visualization of Situational Awareness and Mental State for .. - Randolph Jones Computer(Correct)
We have created a graphical interface tool to aid in the development and deployment of
intelligent synthetic forces. The Situational Awareness Panel provides a number of views "inside the
mind" of a... / views inside the mind of a synthetic agent. The views update br making both for humans and synthetic agents. It is an axiom that a human
68.4 Towards a Notion of Individual Ontology - Bennett, Theodoulidis(Correct)
This paper examines the relationship between a concept of 'Individual Ontology'and the development
and maintenance of organisational knowledge repositories in the form of ontology. We argue that all
o... / also includes the group of synthetic agents. Synthetic is a generic term br category represents a group of synthetic agents. NatGrp Natural group
54.8 Conferring Human Action Recognition Skills to Life-Like Agents - Abbreviated Title Action(Correct)
Most of today's virtual environments are populated with some kind of autonomous life-like agents. Such agents
follow a pre-programmed sequence of behaviours that exclude the user as a participating en... / simulating intelligence for synthetic agents. Famous examples are robots br applied to the behaviour of synthetic agents. In our virtual shop
21.8 Chapter 18 Situated Learning In Autonomous Agents - Bart De Boer(Correct)
this paper we have examined and illustrated how AI approaches the problem of unknown
CHAPTER 18
SITUATED LEARNING IN AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
BART DE BOER AND DOLORES CAAMERO
/ They are all instances of synthetic agents -autonomous agents that br as the ones in autonomous synthetic agents. There is on-line learning
4.0 * INESC/IST, Rua Alves redol, 9, - Lisboa Portugal Addeti-(Correct)
This paper provides an overview of the SAFIRA project, an
IST-KA4 project in the area of Affective Interactions. We
explain the rationale for providing computers with the ability
to understand, model,... / of building affective synthetic agents are not only in the
The Evolution of Simple Affective States in Multi-Agent Environments - Scheutz(Correct)
We propose a research strategy to study the evolution of
affective states and analyze the requirements for simulated
environments to be appropriate for experiments with affective
agent architecture... / and implemented in real and synthetic agents Conceptual analyses of br and Other Motivations in Synthetic Agents. In Proceedings of the
An Evolvable Approach to the - Maes Action Selection (2002)(Correct)
Action selection mechanisms typically involve considerable design effort and
parameter tuning. This work considers some of the different approaches to the action
selection problem, with particular att... /