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Want to Know How to Play the Game? Ask the ORACLE!

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2009)

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The ORACLE Agent

This paper describes the ORACLE, an embodied intelligent virtual agent designed and built for helping players of a serious game named ORIENT [1]. The game challenges players at the socio-cultural level, because it requires them to learn how to interact smoothly with alien characters in order to save their planet. The ORACLE is a virtual agent on a mobile phone, whose goal is to enhance the users’ learning in the game. The agent can both react to the players’ questions, and proactively intervene for suggesting things to users or for commenting on their performance.

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  1. Interagens s.r.l., c/o ITech, Via G. Peroni 444, 00133, Rome, Italy

    Paola Rizzo

  2. Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH144AS, UK

    Michael Kriegel, MeiYii Lim & Ruth Aylett

  3. INESC-ID, Av. Prof. Dr. Cavaco Silva, 2780-990, Porto Salvo, Portugal

    Rui Figueiredo

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  1. Human Media Interaction (HMI), University of Twente, EWI (Zilverling), P.O.Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

    ZsĂłfia Ruttkay

  2. Deutsches Forschungszentrum fĂĽr kĂĽnstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Campus D3.2, 66123, SaarbrĂĽcken, Germany

    Michael Kipp

  3. Human Media Interaction Group,Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

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  4. Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, CADIA, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Kringlan 1, 103, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

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Rizzo, P., Kriegel, M., Figueiredo, R., Lim, M., Aylett, R. (2009). Want to Know How to Play the Game? Ask the ORACLE!. In: Ruttkay, Z., Kipp, M., Nijholt, A., Vilhjálmsson, H.H. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_81

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