Scripting animated conversational agents in an Internet multi-agent advertising system

Journal of Convergence Information Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 293-305

  Hong, Zeng Wei ^a   Chuang, Cheng Hung ^a   Wu, Chin Hsien ^b   Chin, Kai Yi ^c   Lin, Jim Min ^c   Chen, Yen Lin ^d  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Animated conversational agents; Authoring tool; Interactive drama markup languages; Internet advertising system

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING SYSTEMS; AGENT BASED; ANIMATED AGENTS; ANIMATED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; AUTHORING TOOL; INTERACTIVE DRAMA; INTERACTIVE DRAMA MARKUP LANGUAGES; INTERNET ADVERTISING; INTERNET ADVERTISING SYSTEM; MULTI-AGENT;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MARKETING; MARKUP LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 79952423147     PISSN: 19759320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4156/jcit.vol6.issue2.30     Document Type: Article

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