Intelligent Virtual Agents 4th International Workshop, IVA 2003,
This volume, containing the proceedings of IVA 2003, held at Kloster Irsee, in Germany, September 15–17, 2003, is testimony to the growing importance of IntelligentVirtualAgents(IVAs) asaresearch?eld.Wereceived67submissions, nearly twice as many as for IV
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Intelligent Virtual Agents 4th International Workshop, IVA 2003 Kloster Irsee, Germany, September 15-17, 2003 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Thomas Rist DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66111 Saarbrücken, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Ruth Aylett University of Salford, Centre for Virtual Environments Business House, Salford, M5 4WT, UK E-mail: [email protected] Daniel Ballin Radical Multimedia Lab, BT Exact Ross PP4 Adastral Park Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK E-mail: [email protected] Jeff Rickel USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001, Marina del Rey, USA E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at . CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, H.5, H.4, K.3 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-20003-7 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Boller Mediendesign Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10931851 06/3142 543210
Preface
This volume, containing the proceedings of IVA 2003, held at Kloster Irsee, in Germany, September 15–17, 2003, is testimony to the growing importance of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) as a research field. We received 67 submissions, nearly twice as many as for IVA 2001, not only from European countries, but from China, Japan, and Korea, and both North and South America. As IVA research develops, a growing number of application areas and platforms are also being researched. Interface agents are used as part of larger applications, often on the Web. Education applications draw on virtual actors and virtual drama, while the advent of 3D mobile computing and the convergence of telephones and PDAs produce geographically-aware guides and mo
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