Title
Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent
Abstract
The development of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) as Companions brings several challenges for both affective and conversational dialogue. These include challenges in generating appropriate affective responses, selecting the overall shape of the dialogue, providing prompt system response times and handling interruptions. We present an implementation of such a Companion showing the development of individual modules that attempt to address these challenges. Further, to resolve resulting conflicts, we present encompassing interaction strategies that attempt to balance the competing requirements. Finally, we present dialogues from our working prototype to illustrate these interaction strategies in operation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_31
Presence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
prompt system response time,appropriate affective response,individual module,conversational dialogue,affective conversational agent,overall shape,embodied conversational agents,present dialogue,interaction strategy,working prototype,computer and information science,conversational agent
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
5
0302-9743
3-642-15891-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.68
19
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cameron Smith1967.31
Nigel Crook2452.80
Johan Boye322120.69
Daniel Charlton4574.72
Simon Dobnik5784.02
David Pizzi630920.24
M. Cavazza71605161.76
Stephen Pulman845038.31
Raul Santos de la Camara9372.43
Markku Turunen1048467.09