Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents (eBook)

20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics, Volume 2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application

Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, David Traum (Herausgeber)

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2022
710 Seiten
Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4503-9897-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents provides a comprehensive overview of the research fields of Embodied Conversational Agents;Intelligent Virtual Agents;and Social Robotics. Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs);whether virtually or physically embodied;are autonomous agents that are able to perceive an environment including people or other agents;reason;decide how to interact;and express attitudes such as emotions;engagement;or empathy. They are capable of interacting with people and one another in a socially intelligent manner using multimodal communicative behaviors;with the goal to support humans in various domains.Written by international experts in their respective fields;the book summarizes research in the many important research communities pertinent for SIAs;while discussing current challenges and future directions. The handbook provides easy access to modeling and studying SIAs for researchers and students;and aims at further bridging the gap between the research communities involved.In two volumes;the book clearly structures the vast body of research. The first volume starts by introducing what is involved in SIAs research;in particular research methodologies and ethical implications of developing SIAs. It further examines research on appearance and behavior;focusing on multimodality. Finally;social cognition for SIAs is investigated using different theoretical models and phenomena such as theory of mind or pro-sociality. The second volume starts with perspectives on interaction;examined from different angles such as interaction in social space;group interaction;or long-term interaction. It also includes an extensive overview summarizing research and systems of human-agent platforms and of some of the major application areas of SIAs such as education;aging support;autism;and games.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: ACM Books
• Reihe/Serie: ACM Books
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Schlagworte: Assisitive Technolgy • Autonoumous Agents • Companions • embodied conversational agents • human-agent interaction • Human-Centered AI • Human-Robot Interaction • intelligent user interfaces • intelligent virtual agents • multimodal behavior • multimodal interaction • ocially Interactive Agents • social robotics • social robots • virtual humans • Virtual Worlds
• ISBN-10: 1-4503-9897-9 / 1450398979
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4503-9897-8 / 9781450398978