The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied
Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, Page 1 15 forum! Today’s topic is Socially …

We describe the emotion and dialogue aspects of the virtual agents used in the MRE project
at USC. The models of emotion and dialogue started independently, though each makes …

In affective dialog simulation, recognition and interpretation of the affective state of the user
should be integrated with display of empathy by the system and with dialog planning and …

The gaming industry is diligently working to find ways to emotionally immerse players in
games. Their goal is to evoke emotions in the player, such as empathy, to make the player …

Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the implications and applications of
emotional behaviour in the human-computer interface (Picard 1997). In particular, research …

This report reviews the state of the art research in Dialogue Management (DM) Systems.
Dialogue systems have been around since the 1960's, the best known are conversation …