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Developing embodied agent-based user interface by using interactive drama markup language

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ICUIMC '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

Pages 524 - 528

https://doi.org/10.1145/1516241.1516333

Published: 15 February 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Current researches of ECA-based user interfaces focus on how to script the behaviors of ECAs to resemble a real person, such as VHML, CML, AML, MPML, TelMeA, etc. They propose high-level scripting languages and development kits to support users scripting ECA-based user interfaces. However, we think that a scripting language must be concerned about creating ECA animation and user interfaces of the underlying software application. In other words, an appropriate ECA markup language should enable users to create avatars and represent layout of typical user interfaces with simple widgets, for example buttons. In this paper, we propose a XML-based interactive drama markup language (IDML) that allows users to create ECA-based user interfaces and GUIs with a set of buttons. Furthermore, IDML uses the concept of Interactive drama to create branching narrations that enables the audience to affect an ECA's behaviors when the audience interacts with the ECA, and enables the ECA will present different dialogue according to the audience's action. In order to give the general user's relief from learning XML, we design an authoring tool to provide visual windows consisted of GUI widgets to facilitate generations of interactive dramas in IDML.

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Hong ZChen YLan C(2012)A courseware to script animated pedagogical agents in instructional material for elementary students in English educationComputer Assisted Language Learning10.1080/09588221.2012.73371227:5(379-394)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2012
https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2012.733712
CHIN KCHEN YCHEN JHONG ZLIN J(2011)Exploring the Teaching Efficiency of Integrating an Animated Agent into Web-Based Multimedia Learning SystemIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.E94.D.754E94-D:4(754-762)Online publication date: 2011
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ICUIMC '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

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ISBN:9781605584058

DOI:10.1145/1516241

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Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2618-8_2
Hong ZChen YLan C(2012)A courseware to script animated pedagogical agents in instructional material for elementary students in English educationComputer Assisted Language Learning10.1080/09588221.2012.73371227:5(379-394)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2012
https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2012.733712
CHIN KCHEN YCHEN JHONG ZLIN J(2011)Exploring the Teaching Efficiency of Integrating an Animated Agent into Web-Based Multimedia Learning SystemIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.E94.D.754E94-D:4(754-762)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.E94.D.754
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