Eliza meets the Wizard-of-Oz: Blending machine and human control of embodied characters

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 547-556

  Dow, Steven P ^a   Mehta, Manish ^b   MacIntyre, Blair ^b   Mateas, Michael ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial intelligence; embodied characters; interactive drama; wizard of oz methods

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SPACES; EMBODIED CHARACTERS; GAME LOG; HUMAN CONTROL; HUMAN OPERATOR; INTERACTIVE DRAMA; SEMANTIC CATEGORY; WIZARD OF OZ; WIZARD-OF-OZ METHODS;

ANIMATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLENDING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MACHINE DESIGN;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 77953976902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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