Intelligent Virtual Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents

by Ruth Aylett, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Brigitte Krenn, Catherine Pelachaud

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2013, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2013. There was a total of 94 submissions. The 18 full and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. In addition, the volume lists the 34 posters which were on display during the conference. The papers are organized in topical sections named: cognitive models; applications; dialogue, language, speech; non-verbal behaviour; and social, cultural models and agents.

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    How has our perception and interaction with intelligent virtual agents changed in the decade since this conference was held in 2013?

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    Consider the topical sections of the book—cognitive models, dialogue, and non-verbal behavior—which aspect of creating a lifelike virtual agent do you think poses the greatest technical and philosophical challenge?

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    In your own daily life, how often do you interact with virtual agents or chatbots, and how do those experiences compare to the academic models discussed in the text?

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