1. What have the authors contributed in "Multimodal embodied agents" ?
Among the goals of research on Autonomous Agents one important aim is to build Believable Interactive Embodied Agents, ones apt to be applied to friendly interfaces in e-commerce, tourist and service query systems, entertainment and as pedagogical Agents.. An Interactive Agent has to take into account the particular User and the particular Context where the interaction takes place, and therefore has to make up its own model of the User and the Context, and interact with it by following the rules of face-to face interaction, like turn-taking, back-channel and so forth.. The list of capacities required by a Believable Interactive Embodied Agent allows us to sketch the outline of the steps to move in this field of research ; some of them have already been moved in recent work, and are fairly represented among papers in this workshop.. Third, a phase of evaluation of the implemented Agents, aimed at testing how they fit the User ’ s needs and how similar they look to a real Human Agent.
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