Paper Info
Title
AVATAR: An Open Source Architecture for Embodied Conversational Agents in Smart Environments.
Abstract
Due to a growing older population, researchers and industry are paying more attention to the needs of this group of people. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) aims to help people in their daily lives, achieving a more natural interaction of users with an electronic home environment. Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) arise as a natural interface between humans and AmI. Our contribution is to present AVATAR: an architecture to develop ECAs based on open source tools and libraries. In the current prototype the virtual agent acts as a natural control interface of the home automation system. In addition, we provide the details to allow its use by Spanish speakers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.12795/Ambitos.2011.i20.06
AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING
Field
DocType
Volume
Population,Architecture,Smart environment,Computer science,Embodied agent,Ambient intelligence,Human–computer interaction,Dialog system,Natural user interface,Multimedia,Avatar
Conference
6693.0
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcos Santos-Pérez141.53
Eva González-Parada283.29
José-Manuel Cano3447.56