Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans Second ZiF
Two main types of embodied agents are playing an increasingly important role in cognitive interaction technology: virtual humans inhabiting simulated environments and humanoid robots inhabiting the real world. The need to develop an integrated p
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Ipke Wachsmuth Günther Knoblich (Eds.)
Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans Second ZiF Research Group International Workshop on Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines Bielefeld, Germany, April 5-8, 2006 Revised Selected Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Ipke Wachsmuth University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Technology 33594 Bielefeld, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Günther Knoblich University of Birmingham, School of Psychology Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008923959
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.9, I.2, J.4, K.4.3, H.5, I.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
Embodied agents play an increasingly important role in cognitive interaction technology. The two main types of embodied agents are virtual humans inhabiting simulated environments and humanoid robots inhabiting the real world. So far research on embodied communicative agents has mainly explored their potential for practical applications. However, the design of communicative artificial agents can also be of great heuristic value for the scientific study of communication. It allows researchers to isolate, implement, and test essential properties of inter-agent communications in operational models. Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans thus involves the vision of using communicative machines as research tools. Artificial systems that reproduce certain aspects of natural, multimodal communication help to elucidate the internal mechanisms that give rise to different aspects of communication. In short, constructing embodied agents who are able to communicate may help us to understand the principles of human communication. As a comprehensive theme, “Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines” was taken up by an international resea
