Isabelle Hupont
ABSTRACT
Affective interaction between a user and a virtual agent must be believable. The virtual actor has to behave properly, to have the capacity to talk in natural language and to express some affectivity. For achieving this goal, it is basic to provide the agent with intelligence to let him make all kind of real-time decisions in complex situations. In this paper, an architecture for the user interaction with intelligent affective multimodal virtual agents in uncertain environments is proposed. It is based on the integration of Maxine, a powerful multimodal animation engine for managing virtual agents and 3D scenarios, and PROPHET, a cognitive intelligent system based on Fuzzy Logic. The outstanding features of the proposed architecture are its affective and intelligence capabilities that make the system able to cope with decisions based on the analysis and learning of information and perceptions coming from uncertain environments.
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- Towards an intelligent affective multimodal virtual agent for uncertain environments
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