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| by Brigitte Krenn, Barbara Neumayr, Christoph Schmotzer and Martine Grice in Virtual worlds (2005) |
In this paper we describe a commercial platform for the development of net environments, virtual spaces inhabited by avatars which have been created and are subsequently visited and instructed by users via the Internet. The platform allows extensive data collection. Which data are collected and the scope of analysis will be explained on a theoretical level and by examples from data sets collected from different applications. Read more
| by Agneta Gulz in Relations, Coach, Role playing (2004) |
Pedagogical theory of today gives high priority to social components of learning. Within the field of computer supported learning there are many attempts to acknowledge this. One approach involves the addition of virtual characters to electronic learning environments. Such character enhanced systems are the focus of the present article. Firstly, a systematic overview is given of pedagogical benefits that have been proposed in the literature regarding character enhancement of electronic learning environments, for example... Read more
| by Antonella De Angeli, Paula Lynch and Graham Johnson in Agent identity, Personality, Cultural awareness (2001) |
This paper discusses our vision of the future with respect to the introduction of virtual assistants in the e-market. It presents the latest evolution of the involvement framework, an on-going model aimed at driving the design and the evaluation of social agents virtual characters designed to set up lasting relationships with the users. The framework is based on a review of the literature and on the systematic analysis of the firstgeneration social agents available... Read more
