Conference paper
Empathic interaction with a virtual guide
Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents: Social Presence Cues for Virtual Humanoids, Empathic Interaction with Synthetic Characters, pp.122-129
Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, 2005 (Hatfield, United Kingdom, 12-Apr-2005–15-Apr-2005)
Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
2005
Abstract
The Empathic Tour Guide System is a context-aware mobile system, including an 'intelligent empathic guide with attitude', offering the user a seamless, temporally and spatially dependent, multi-modal interaction interface. It will consist of two virtual agents each possessing a contrasting personality, presenting users with different versions of the story of the same event or place. An Emergent Empathic Model with Personality is proposed as a mechanism for action selection and affective processing. The system will mould to the behavior of the users and facilitate their movement, applying story-telling techniques which link the memory and interests of the guide as well as the visitor to the spatial location so that stories are relevant to what can be immediately seen, creating personalised communication. Multisensory systems will be integrated with the PDA, adopting wireless technology. Detection of the user's current physical position will be performed by a Global Positioning System. This paper presents a review of related work, the proposed system, consideration of the challenges in system design and development as well as a discussion on future work to be carried out.
Details
- Title
- Empathic interaction with a virtual guide
- Authors
- M Y Lim (Author) - Heriot-Watt University, United KingdomR Aylett (Author) - Heriot-Watt University, United KingdomChristian M Jones (Author) - Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents: Social Presence Cues for Virtual Humanoids, Empathic Interaction with Synthetic Characters, pp.122-129
- Conference details
- Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, 2005 (Hatfield, United Kingdom, 12-Apr-2005–15-Apr-2005)
- Publisher
- Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
- Date published
- 2005
- ISBN
- 1902956492
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2005 Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulationof Behaviour. Reproduced here with the permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449587502621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
- Research Statement
- false
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