Interactive Embodied Agents for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological presentations

In this paper, Maxine, a powerful engine to develop applications with embodied animated agents is presented. The engine, based on the use of open source libraries, enables multimodal real-time interaction with the user: via text, voice, images and gestures. Maxine virtual agents can establish emotio...

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Main Authors: F. Seron, S. Baldassarri, E. Cerezp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2010-04-01
Series:Virtual Archaeology Review
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/var/article/view/5143
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description In this paper, Maxine, a powerful engine to develop applications with embodied animated agents is presented. The engine, based on the use of open source libraries, enables multimodal real-time interaction with the user: via text, voice, images and gestures. Maxine virtual agents can establish emotional communication with the user through their facial expressions, the modulation of the voice and expressing the answers of the agents according to the information gathered by the system: noise level in the room, observer’s position, emotional state of the observer, etc. Moreover, the user’s emotions are considered and captured through images. For the moment, Maxine virtual agents have been used as virtual presenters for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological shows.
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spellingShingle F. Seron
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E. Cerezp
Interactive Embodied Agents for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological presentations
Virtual Archaeology Review
Multimodal interaction
Virtual agent
Ambient intelligence
Virtual worlds
Cultural heritage
Archaeology
title Interactive Embodied Agents for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological presentations
title_full Interactive Embodied Agents for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological presentations
title_fullStr Interactive Embodied Agents for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological presentations
title_full_unstemmed Interactive Embodied Agents for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological presentations
title_short Interactive Embodied Agents for Cultural Heritage and Archaeological presentations
title_sort interactive embodied agents for cultural heritage and archaeological presentations
topic Multimodal interaction
Virtual agent
Ambient intelligence
Virtual worlds
Cultural heritage
Archaeology
url http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/var/article/view/5143
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