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The InViWo Toolkit: Describing Autonomous Virtual Agents and Avatars

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The InViWo project aims at providing high-level intuitive tools to describe virtual worlds populated with “intelligent” creatures and avatars. For this purpose, we have defined the Marvin language, which enables the high-level description of autonomous agent behaviours. In this paper, we present the underlying model we have designed, especially our agent and avatar architectures. We then present the main features of the Marvin language and we introduce the use of constraints as powerful tools for describing and combining behaviours.

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  • Virtual World
  • Constraint Program
  • Agent Behaviour
  • Virtual Agent
  • Behavioural Module

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    Nadine Richard & Alain Grumbach

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  1. Facultad de Informática Campus de Montegancedo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Center for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Business House Salford, M5 4WT, UK

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  3. Radical Multimedia Lab, BTexact Technologies, Ross PP1, Adastral Park, Martlesham, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

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Richard, N., Codognet, P., Grumbach, A. (2001). The InViWo Toolkit: Describing Autonomous Virtual Agents and Avatars. In: de Antonio, A., Aylett, R., Ballin, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44812-8_16

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