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Virtual characters in games or simulations are increasingly required to perform complex tasks in dynamic virtual environments. This includes the ability to communicate in a human-like manner with other characters or a human user. When applying agent technology to create autonomous, goal-directed characters, interactions have to be generated at runtime. In this paper we propose a model balancing efficient agent communication on one hand and believable realizations of human-like interactions on the other hand.
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van Oijen, J., Dignum, F. (2013). Agent Communication for Believable Human-Like Interactions between Virtual Characters. In: Dignum, F., Brom, C., Hindriks, K., Beer, M., Richards, D. (eds) Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments. CAVE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7764. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36444-0_3
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