Paper Info
Title
ECAF: authoring language for embodied conversational agents
Abstract
Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is the user interface metaphor that allows to naturally communicate information during human-computer interaction in synergic modality dimensions, including voice, gesture, emotion, text, etc. Due to its anthropological representation and the ability to express humanlike behavior, ECAs are becoming popular interface front-ends for dialog and conversational applications. One important prerequisite for efficient authoring of such ECA-based applications is the existence of a suitable programming language that exploits the expressive possibilities of multimodally blended messages conveyed to the user. In this paper, we present an architecture and interaction language ECAF, which we used for authoring several ECA-based applications. We also provide the feedback from usability testing we carried for user acceptance of several multimodal blending strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_28
TSD
Keywords
Field
DocType
popular interface front-ends,eca-based application,suitable programming language,conversational agent,efficient authoring,embodied conversational agent,interaction language,authoring language,anthropological representation,human-computer interaction,user interface metaphor,user acceptance,front end,usability testing,human computer interaction,user interface,programming language
Dialog box,Gesture,Embodied agent,Computer science,Usability,Embodied cognition,Human–computer interaction,Dialog system,User interface,Multimedia,Metaphor
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4629
0302-9743
3-540-74627-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.68
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ladislav Kunc1124.21
Jan Kleindienst222023.74