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![]() | Karolina Kuligowska on 7 years, 8 months ago in Agent identity, Cultural awareness, Agent's Expression, Gestures, Business, Tools & Products, Business News | by
Summary: Cross-cultural role of avatars in learning Arabic
Highly expressive avatars presented on the video are used by Vcom3D in teaching Arabic as well as culturally appropriate gestures and behaviors useful when interacting with people from Arabic countries. Developed in cooperation with Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory for military and civilian personnel working in Iraq and Afghanistan, 3D Serious Game constitutes dynamic learning environment with embodied conversational agents that feature voice, text and gestural information.
Read more about: Cross cultural virtual training with avatars
![]() | Karolina Kuligowska on 8 years, 4 months ago in Agent identity, Cultural awareness, Agent's Processing, Cognition, State of the Art, Research News | by
Summary: Awareness ability of 3D interactive conversational agents
Virtual agents’ reasoning and actions are tightly connected with their awareness ability helping to relate to the environment during a conversation. Researchers invented the combination of virtual reality and artificial intelligence techniques to simulate living conversational agents being aware of themselves, the virtual world around them, and other virtual beings existing in that environment.
Read more about: Conversational agents experience self-awareness