Ada and grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides

William Swartout; David Traum; Ron Artstein; Dan Noren; Paul Debevec; Kerry Bronnenkant; Josh Williams; Anton Leuski; Shrikanth Narayanan; Diane Piepol; Chad Lane; Jacquelyn Morie; Priti Aggarwal; Matt Liewer; Jen Yuan Chiang; Jillian Gerten; Selina Chu; Kyle White

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_30

Ada and grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides

William Swartout, David Traum, Ron Artstein, Dan Noren, Paul Debevec, Kerry Bronnenkant, Josh Williams, Anton Leuski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Diane Piepol, Chad Lane, Jacquelyn Morie, Priti Aggarwal, Matt Liewer, Jen Yuan Chiang, Jillian Gerten, Selina Chu, Kyle White

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Abstract

To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum guides that are in use at the Museum of Science, Boston. The characters use natural language interaction and have near photoreal appearance to increase and presents reports from museum staff on visitor reaction.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Intelligent Virtual Agents - 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Proceedings
Pages	286-300
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_30
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2010 - Philadelphia, PA, United States Duration: Sep 20 2010 → Sep 22 2010

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6356 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia, PA
Period	9/20/10 → 9/22/10

Keywords

STEM
informal science education
natural language interaction
photoreal characters
virtual human applications
virtual museum guides

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Swartout, W., Traum, D., Artstein, R., Noren, D., Debevec, P., Bronnenkant, K., Williams, J., Leuski, A., Narayanan, S., Piepol, D., Lane, C., Morie, J., Aggarwal, P., Liewer, M., Chiang, J. Y., Gerten, J., Chu, S., & White, K. (2010). Ada and grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides. In Intelligent Virtual Agents - 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Proceedings (pp. 286-300). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6356 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_30

Ada and grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides. / Swartout, William; Traum, David; Artstein, Ron et al.
Intelligent Virtual Agents - 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 286-300 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6356 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Swartout, W, Traum, D, Artstein, R, Noren, D, Debevec, P, Bronnenkant, K, Williams, J, Leuski, A, Narayanan, S, Piepol, D, Lane, C, Morie, J, Aggarwal, P, Liewer, M, Chiang, JY, Gerten, J, Chu, S & White, K 2010, Ada and grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides. in Intelligent Virtual Agents - 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6356 LNAI, pp. 286-300, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 9/20/10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_30

Swartout W, Traum D, Artstein R, Noren D, Debevec P, Bronnenkant K et al. Ada and grace: Toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides. In Intelligent Virtual Agents - 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 286-300. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_30

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