Accession number:20093912331505
Title: Developing embodied agent-based user interface by using interactive drama markup language
Authors: Hong, Zeng-Wei (1); Chin, Kai-Yi (2); Lin, Jim-Min (2) Author affiliation:(1) Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan; (2) Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia
University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan Corresponding author:Hong, Z.-W.
(stewart@asia.edu.tw)
Source title: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC'09 Abbreviated source title:Proc. Int. Conf. Ubiquitous Inf. Manage.
Commun., ICUIMC
Monograph title:Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC'09 Issue date:2009
Publication year:2009 Pages:524-528
Language:English
ISBN-13:9781605584058
Document type:Conference article (CA)
Conference name:3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC'09 Conference date:January 15, 2009 - January 16, 2009 Conference location:Suwon, Korea, Republic of
Conference code:76910
Publisher:Association for Computing Machinery, 1515 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States
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 highlevel 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. Copyright 2009 ACM.
Number of references:20
Main heading:Markup languages
Controlled terms: Animation - Educational motion pictures - Fasteners - Graphical user interfaces - Hypertext systems - Information management - Linguistics - Man machine systems - Query languages - XML
Uncontrolled terms: Authoring tool - Branching narrations - ECA- based user interface - Embodied agent - Embodied conversational agent - Interactive drama - Scripting languages - Software
applications
Classification code:912.2 Management - 903.2 Information Dissemination - 901.2 Education - 742.1 Photography - 731.1 Control Systems - 961 Systems Science - 723.5 Computer
Applications - 723.1.1 Computer Programming Languages - 723 Computer Software, Data Handling and Applications - 722.2
Computer Peripheral Equipment - 605 Small Tools and Hardware - 723.3 Database Systems
DOI:10.1145/1516241.1516333 Database:Compendex
Compilation and indexing terms, Copyright 2009 Elsevier Inc.
