ISBN: 3540008675
TITLE: Life-like Characters.
AUTHOR: Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka (eds.)
TOC:

Part I Introduction
Introducing the Cast for Social Computing: Life-Like Characters
Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka 3
Part II Languages and Tools for Life-Like Characters
Representing and Parameterizing Agent Behaviors
Jan Allbeck, Norm Badler 19
Toward a Unified Scripting Language: Lessons Learned from Developing CML and AML
Yasmine Arafa, Kaveh Kamyab, Ebrahim Mamdani 39
APML, a Markup Language for Believable Behavior Generation
Berardina De Carolis, Catherine Pelachaud, Isabella Poggi, Mark Steedman 65
STEP: a Scripting Language for Embodied Agents
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliens, Cees Visser 87
gUI: Specifying Complete User Interaction
Andrew Marriott, Simon Beard 111
A Behavior Language: Joint Action and Behavioral Idioms
Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern 135
BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit
Justine Cassell, Hannes Hgni Vilhjlmsson, TimothyBickmore 163
Galatea: Open-Source Software for Developing Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agents
Shin-ichi Kawamoto, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Tsuneo Nitta, Takuya Nishimoto, Satoshi Nakamura, Katsunobu Itou, Shigeo Morishima, Tatsuo Yotsukura, Atsuhiko Kai, Akinobu Lee, Yoichi Yamashita, Takao Kobayashi, Keiichi Tokuda, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsushi Yamada, Yasuharu Den, Takehito Utsuro, Shigeki Sagayama 187
MPML and SCREAM: Scripting the Bodies and Minds of Life-Like Characters
Helmut Prendinger, Santi Saeyor, Mitsuru Ishizuka 213
Part III Systems and Applications
Great Expectations: Prediction in Entertainment Applications
Robert Burke 245
Shallowand Inner Forms of Emotional Intelligence in Advisory Dialog Simulation
Fiorella de Rosis, Berardina De Carolis, Valeria Caroglio, Sebastiano Pizzutilo 271
Web Information Integration Using Multiple Character Agents
Yasuhiko Kitamura 295
Expressive Behaviors for Virtual Worlds
Stacy Marsella, Jonathan Gratch, Jeff Rickel 317
Playing with Agents-Agents in Social and Dramatic Games
Ana Paiva, Rui Prada, Isabel Machado, Carlos Martinho, Marco Vala, Andr Silva 361
A Review of the Development of Embodied Presentation Agents and Their Application Fields
Thomas Rist, Elisabeth Andr, Stephan Baldes, Patrick Gebhard, Martin Klesen, Michael Kipp, Peter Rist, Markus Schmitt 377
Interface Agents That Facilitate Knowledge Interactions Between Community Members
Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase 405
Animated Agents Capable of Understanding Natural Language and Performing Actions
Hozumi Tanaka, Takenobu Tokunaga, Yusuke Shinyama 429
Part IV Synopsis
What Makes Characters Seem Life-Like?
Barbara Hayes-Roth 447
Some Issues in the Design of Character Scripting and Specification Languages - a Personal View Thomas Rist 463
Online Material 469
Index 471
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