Accession Number:

AD1157731

Title:

A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-Team Interaction

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Book Chapter]

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

Personal Author(s):

• Traum, David
• Swartout, William
• Gratch, Jonathan
• Marsella, Stacy

Report Date:

2008-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

23

Abstract:

We describe the dialogue model for the virtual humans developed at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. The dialogue model contains a rich set of information state and dialogue moves to allow a wide range of behaviour in multimodal, multiparty interaction. We extend this model to enable non-team negotiation, using ideas from social science literature on negotiation and implemented strategies and dialogue moves for this area. We present a virtual human doctor who uses this model to engage in multimodal negotiation dialogue with people from other organisations. The doctor is part of the SASO-ST system, used for training for non-team interactions.

Descriptors:

• multiagent systems
• cognitive science
• artificial intelligence
• language
• linguistics
• psychology
• training
• virtual reality
• dialogue systems
• natural languages
• new york
• ontologies
• computer science
• natural language processing
• negotiations
• recognition
• social sciences

Subject Categories:

• Information Science
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]