DEAL - Dialogue management in SCXML for believable game characters

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play, Future Play '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 137-144

  Brusk, Jenny ^a   Lager, Torbjörn ^b   Hjalmarsson, Anna ^c   Wik, Preben ^c  

^a GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

game dialogue; non player characters; SCXML; serious games; statecharts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DIALOGUE MANAGER; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SERIOUS GAMES; STATECHARTS; W3C STANDARDS;

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 52149110267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328202.1328227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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