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A quiz game console based on a generic embodied conversational agent framework
HH Huang, T Inoue, A Cerekovic, I Pandzic... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2007 - Springer
This article describes an attempt to build a quiz game kiosk for show-room use based on the 
Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) Framework [1] that provides a general 
purpose architecture for connecting modularized ECA functional components for ...
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Scripting Human-Agent Interactions in a Generic ECA Framework
HH Huang, A Cerekovic, IS Pandzic... - ... and Innovations in ..., 2008 - Springer
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like CG characters that interact with 
human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conversations, 
ECA systems are sophisticated and are composed with assemblies of various functions. ...
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Towards a multicultural ECA tour guide system
A Cerekovic, HH Huang, I Pandzic, Y Nakano... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2007 - Springer
... The tour guide system architecture is being carried out by a generic ECA framework (GECA
framework) we introduced in our prior work [1]. Based on the low-level OpenAIR's XML routing
protocol [2], GECA framework provides a seamless integration of various components; the ... 
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[PDF] Towards an embodied conversational agent talking in Croatian
[PDF] from fer.hrA Cerekovic, HH Huang, G Zoric, K Tarasenko... - ConTEL 2007, 2007 - rasip.fer.hr
... Figure 2. The conceptual diagram of the Generic ECA Framework and the ... architecture, concepts
of the GECA framework, and various components we ... II. CONCEPTS OF THE GENERIC
EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT FRAMEWORK To connect many heterogeneous ... 
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The design of a generic framework for integrating ECA components
[PDF] from ifaamas.orgHH Huang, T Nishida, A Cerekovic... - Proceedings of the 7th ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
... 3. THE DESIGN OF GENERIC ECA FRAMEWORK The Generic Embodied Conversational
Agent (GECA) Framework has three parts, the integration backbone GECA Platform,
communication libraries GECA Plugs, and a high level protocol GECA Protocol. ... 
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An agent based multicultural tour guide system with nonverbal user interface
[PDF] from ieee.hrHH Huang, K Tarasenko, T Nishida... - Journal on Multimodal ..., 2007 - Springer
... Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2007 Figure 1: The conceptual diagram
of GECA framework and the configuration of the eNTERFACE06 agent. use the GECA Framework
to build this Dubrovnik tour guide agent. 2. GENERIC ECA FRAMEWORK ... 
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A Script Driven Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agent Based on a Generic Framework
HH Huang, A Cerekovic, I Pandzic, Y Nakano... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2007 - Springer
... research groups to develop. To facilitate result sharing and rapid prototyping of ECA
researches, a Generic ECA Framework that is meant to integrate ECA assemblies
seamlessly is being developed by our group. This framework is ... 
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Incorporating intentional and emotional behaviors into a Virtual Human for Better Customer-Engineer-Interaction
BA Hacker, T Wankerl, A Kiselev... - ... 2009. ConTEL 2009 ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... A. Architecture The GECA framework [2] is served as origin and is extended with ... The system is
called an Extended Generic Embodied Conversational Agent Framework (xGECA ... is an extended
version of the Visage Player of Visage Technologies for the Generic ECA framework. ... 
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Towards an Embodied Conversational Agent Talking in Croatian
A Cerekovic, HH Huang, G Zoric... - ... 2007. ConTel 2007 ..., 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Figure 2. The conceptual diagram ofthe Generic ECA Framework and the configuration ofthe
system In order to achieve effective environment, the tour architecture, concepts of the GECA
framework, and guide agent is projected on the large screen, standing as in various ... 
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[PDF] Toward a culture adaptive conversational agent with a modularized approach
[PDF] from kyoto-u.ac.jpH Huang, T Nishida, A Cerekovic... - ... Interfaces, held in ..., 2008 - ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
... present the preliminary results of our modu- larized approach by using our Generic ECA
Framework to build ... as many results as possible, the system is implemented in our modularized
Generic Embodied Conversational Agent Framework (GECA Framework) and all ... 
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Evaluating Humans' Implicit Attitudes towards an Embodied Conversational Agent
A Kiselev, N Abdikeev... - Advances in Neural Networks-ISNN ..., 2011 - Springer
... IAT). 3.1 Brief Description of Software The Generic Embodied Conversational Agent
(GECA) Framework [8] had been used as a platform for building the presenter agent.
It provides some advantages compared to Page 5. Evaluating ... 
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Toward the Knowledge Circulation between Institutions and Public Audiences with Virtual Agents
[PDF] from kyoto-u.ac.jpHH Huang, H Kubota... - Opportunities and Challenges for Next- ..., 2009 - Springer
... Our previously proposed Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) framework [1]
introduced the concept to distribute agent functionalities like sensor data processing, deliberation
or character animator to simple, gen- eral purpose and reusable standalone modules that ... 
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Integrating embodied conversational agent components with a generic framework
[PDF] from fer.hrHH Huang, A Cerekovic, K Tarasenko... - Multiagent and Grid ..., 2008 - IOS Press
... we are developing an approach to connect those components with a Generic ECA (GECA)
framework. ... As an expectation, with such a generic ECA framework, rapid ECA system prototyping
is possible while ... 3. The concepts of generic embodied conversational agent framework ... 
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Implementing a Multi-user Tour Guide System with an Embodied Conversational Agent
A Cerekovic, HH Huang, T Furukawa... - Active Media ..., 2009 - Springer
... Implementation of the OpenAIR server and plugs is used to set up the GECA
Framework, a software framework which enables rapid integration of different ECA
modules. Apart from the server and plugs, GECA framework also ... 
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[PDF] Toward a Multi-culture Adaptive Virtual Tour Guide Agent with a Modularized Approach
[PDF] from kyoto-u.ac.jpHHHA Cerekovic... - ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
... It is being implemented in Generic ECA Framework, a modulized program- ming framework for
developing ... agent is then implemented in a modulized ECA programming framework, Generic
Embodied Conversational Agent Framework (GECA Framework) (Huang et ... 
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Toward incorporating emotions with rationality into a communicative virtual agent
A Kiselev, BA Hacker, T Wankerl, N Abdikeev... - AI & Society, 2011 - Springer
... In our work, the GECA framework is extended with components according to the SAIBA's proposal. ...
extended version of the Visage Player of Visage Technolo- gies for the Generic ECA framework.
It uses GECA's markup language GSML for describing the agent's behavior. ... 
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Capture and express behavior environment (CEBE) for realizing enculturating human-agent interaction
Y Ohmoto, A Takahashi, H Ohashi... - Culture and computing, 2010 - Springer
... A number of research groups have studied the use of ECAs for intercultural communication. Huang
et al. [6] developed a culture-adaptive virtual tour guide agent that is implemented in a modular
way with the GECA Framework [5] to minimize the development cost. ... 
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Toward a multi-culture adaptive virtual tour guide agent with a modular approach
[PDF] from irb.hrHH Huang, A Cerekovic, IS Pandzic, Y Nakano... - AI & Society, 2009 - Springer
... It is being implemented in Generic ECA Framework, a modular framework for developing ECAs. ...
The Dubravka agent was therefore implemented in a modular ECA development framework,
generic embodied conversational agent framework (GECA Framework) (Huang et al. ... 
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An agent based multicultural user interface in a customer service application
[PDF] from enterface.netHH Huang, A Cerekovic, K Tarasenko... - ... '06-SIMILAR NoE ..., 2006 - isca-speech.org
... III. GENERIC ECA FRAMEWORK To connect many heterogeneous functional components to
an integral virtual human, the consistency of all communication channels ... generate messages
in the same type Figure 1 shows the conceptual diagram of the GECA framework and the ... 
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Communicating with multiple users for embodied conversational agents
HH Huang, A Cerekovic, T Furukawa... - ... 2009. ConTEL 2009 ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... 1 and the system architecture is shown in Fig. 2. The system is developed with our modular
embodied conversational agent development framework, GECA (Generic ECA) Framework
[14]. ... This agent is also implemented in GECA Framework. ... 
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[PDF] Toward a virtual quiz agent who interacts with user groups
[PDF] from kyoto-u.ac.jpHH Huang, T Furukawa, H Ohashi... - The 7th international ..., 2008 - ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
... 2.1 Generic ECA Framework, GECA Generally, to achieve natural face-to-face conversations,
ECAs need to acquire and understand the inputs from human users via sensor devices, deliberate
the responding behaviors and realize those behaviors in multiple modalities with ... 
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Integrating the Emotional Intelligence into the Virtual Technical Support Engineer
A Kiselev, BA Hacker, T Wankerl, Y Ohmoto... - ... Machine Emotions for ..., 2010 - Springer
... A framework which has been developed to ease the inclusion of these require- ments is the
Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) Framework. It ... Vis- agePlayerM is an extended
version of the Visage Player of Visage Technologies for the Generic ECA framework. ... 
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[CITATION] Capture and Express Behavior Environment (CEBE) as WOZ system to realize effective human-agent interaction
Y Ohmoto, H Ohashi, A Takahashi... - ... on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual ..., 2010
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[BOOK] Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV: Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques ...
R Ellis, T Allen... - 2007 - books.google.com
... UK) CALMsystem: A Conversational Agent for Learner Modelling 89 Alice L Kerly (University
of Birmingham), Richard K Ellis (Stratum Management Ltd), Susan Bull (University of Birmingham)
Scripting Human-Agent Interactions in a Generic ECA Framework 103 Hung-Hsuan ... 
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[PDF] Implementing a Multiparty Support in a Tour Guide System with an Embodied Conversational Agent
[PDF] from limsi.frA Cerekovic, HH Huang, T Furukawa... - ... Workshop on Multi- ..., 2008 - enterface08.limsi.fr
... For mediating and synchronizing messages between system components in real-time we use
GECA framework [5]. System requirements ... of a fully functional dialogue manager, a power-up
version of existing GSML (Generic Embodied Conversational Agent Scenario Language ... 
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Communicating with multiple users for embodied conversational agents in quiz game context
HH Huang, T Furukawa, H Ohashi... - International Journal of ..., 2010 - Inderscience
... Page 7. Communicating with multiple users for embodied conversational agents 585 This agent
is implemented on generic ECA (GECA) framework (Huang et al., 2008). It is composed with
three parts. ... Attentive quiz agent B is implemented in GECA framework, too. ... 
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[PDF] FP6-507609
[PDF] from boun.edu.trT Dutoit... - cmpe.boun.edu.tr
... III. GENERIC ECA FRAMEWORK To connect many heterogeneous functional components to
an integral virtual human, the consistency of all communication channels ... generate messages
in the same type Figure 1 shows the conceptual diagram of the GECA framework and the ... 
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Infusing Cultural Awareness into Intelligent Tutoring Systems for a Globalized World
E Blanchard... - Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2010 - Springer
... emerged in this area. Among notable initiatives, Huang and his colleagues (2009)
have proposed the Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) framework in
order to speed the development of EECA. Using GECA, only a ... 
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An ECA engine for deploying heterogeneous component languages in the Semantic Web
E Behrends, O Fritzen, W May... - Current Trends in Database ..., 2006 - Springer
... 5 Conclusion The above ECA engine and Generic Request Handler implement the upper level
of the generic ECA framework proposed in [MAA05a, MAA05b]. They can be used for combining
arbitrary event detection, query and action languages and Page 12. ... 
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[BOOK] Intelligent virtual agents: 7th international conference, IVA 2007, Paris, France, September 17-19, 2007: proceedings
C Pelachaud... - 2007 - books.google.com
... 381 Hung-Hsuan Huang, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Igor S. Pandzic, Yukiko
Nakano, and Toyoaki Nishida A Quiz Game Console Based on a Generic
Embodied Conversational Agent Framework..... 383 ... 
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[PDF] Greta: Une Plateforme d'Agent Conversationnel Expressif et Interactif
[PDF] from telecom-paristech.frE de Sevin, R Niewiadomski... - TSI. Technique et ..., 2010 - perso.telecom-paristech.fr
... Huang et al. proposent GECA (Generic Embodied Conversational Agent Framework) (Huang
et al., 2006), une architecture générique pour construire des ACAs. Elle est en temps réel,
distribuée et indépendante du langage de programmation. ... 
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Multimodal and Agent-Based Human-Computer Interaction in Cultural Heritage Applications: an Overview
A Gentile... - Complex Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, 2010 - Springer
Page 1. Chapter 11 Multimodal and Agent-Based Human-Computer Interaction in
Cultural Heritage Applications: an Overview Antonio Gentile and Salvatore Vitabile
Summary One of the most recent and interesting applications ... 
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The Lessons Learned in Developing Multi-user Attentive Quiz Agents
HH Huang, T Furukawa, H Ohashi... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2009 - Springer
... LNCS (LNAI), vol. 3661, pp. 329-343. Springer, Heidelberg (2005) 5. Huang, H.-H.,
Inoue, T., Cerekovic, A., Pandzic, IS, Nakano, Y., Nishida, T.: A quiz game console
based on a generic embodied conversational agent framework. ... 
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Attentive Conversational Agent with Internal State Transition for Multiple Users
H Ohashi, HH Huang... - Modeling Machine Emotions for ..., 2010 - Springer
... 5.1 System Architecture Our system is based on GECA(Generic Embodied Conversational Agent)
Framework[15], which was developed in our laboratory. It is a platform for developing the ECA
system and it can support various components necessary for developing ECAs. ... 
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[PDF] Supporting Learner Social Relationships with Enculturated Pedagogical Agents
[PDF] from cmu.eduA Ogan - 2011 - reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu
Page 1. SUPPORTING LEARNER SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH ENCULTURATED
PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS AMY OGAN February 2011 CMU-HCII-11-101 Human-Computer
Interaction Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 ... 
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[PDF] Conversational Informatics and Human-Centered Web Intelligence
[PDF] from hkbu.edu.hkT Nishida - IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, 2007 - comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Page 1. Abstract- Conversation is the most natural communication means for people
to communicate with each other. I believe that conversation plays a critical role in
realizing a paradigm of human-centered web intelligence ... 
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[PDF] Controlling the dissemination and disclosure of healthcare events
[PDF] from 128.232.0.20J Singh - 2010 - 128.232.0.20
Page 1. Technical Report Number 770 Computer Laboratory UCAM-CL-TR-770 ISSN
1476-2986 Controlling the dissemination and disclosure of healthcare events Jatinder
Singh February 2010 15 JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge ... 
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[PDF] Intelligent Informatics
[PDF] from hkbu.edu.hkP Chan, R Menezes, D Mitra, E Ribeiro, M Silaghi... - 2007 - comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Page 1. THE IEEE Intelligent Informatics BULLETIN IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee
November 2007 Vol. 8 No. 1 (ISSN 1727-5997) on Intelligent Informatics ----- ... 
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