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Robots Meet IVAs: A Mind-Body Interface for Migrating Artificial Intelligent Agents

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2011)

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We describe CMION, an open source architecture for coordinating the various sensors and effectors of an artificial intelligent agent with its mind, i.e. the high level decision making processes. The architecture was designed to work for virtual graphical agents, including those on mobile devices, as well as robots. Its built-in migration feature allows a character to move between these differing embodiments, inhabiting them in turn. We emphasize the importance of modularity for an architecture supporting migration and highlight design decisions promoting modularity in CMION. An applied example of the architecture’s use in a migration situation is given.

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  1. School Of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Michael Kriegel & Ruth Aylett

  2. INESC-ID and IST/UTL, Av. Prof. Cavaco Silva - Taguspark, 2744-016, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Pedro Cuba, Marco Vala & Ana Paiva

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  1. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

  2. Bielefeld University, CITEC, P.O. Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  3. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 12015 Waterfront Drive, 90094-2536, Playa Vista, CA, USA

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  4. Reykjavik University, CADIA, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Kristinn R. Thórisson

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Kriegel, M., Aylett, R., Cuba, P., Vala, M., Paiva, A. (2011). Robots Meet IVAs: A Mind-Body Interface for Migrating Artificial Intelligent Agents. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_31

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