Book chapter
Why Can’t a Virtual Character Be More Like a Human: A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Believable Agents
Virtual and Mixed Reality - Systems and Applications, pp 289-296
2011
Abstract
Believable agents have applications in a wide range of human computer interaction-related domains, such as education, training, arts and entertainment. Autonomous characters that behave in a believable manner have the potential to maintain human users’ suspense of disbelief and fully engage them in the experience. However, how to construct believable agents, especially in a generalizable and cost effective way, is still an open problem. This paper compares the two common approaches for constructing believable agents — human-driven and artificial intelligence-driven interactive characters — and proposes a mixed-initiative approach in the domain of interactive training systems. Our goal is to provide the user with engaging and effective educational experiences through their interaction with our system.
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Details
- Title
- Why Can’t a Virtual Character Be More Like a Human: A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Believable Agents
- Creators
- Jichen Zhu - University of Central FloridaJ. Michael Moshell - University of Central FloridaSantiago Ontañón - Artificial Intelligence Research InstituteElena Erbiceanu - University of Central FloridaCharles E. Hughes - University of Central Florida
- Publication Details
- Virtual and Mixed Reality - Systems and Applications, pp 289-296
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Berlin, Heidelberg
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79960403986
- Other Identifier
- 991021869111204721