Adaptive Personality of an Embodied Conversational Agent

The research design, implement and evaluate an adaptive personality model for an Embodied Conversational Agent. This research will be done in a number of stages:

1. Investigate previous research and theories of personality models, and their specification.
2. Select an existing or design a new specification for an adaptive personality model.
3. Convert the specification into a suitable computer model.
4. Implement the model on an MPEG-4 facial animation system.
5. Evaluate the model in terms of user identification of the modeled personality and the effectiveness of the human computer interaction.
6. Disseminate research findings.

Content

The Project

Screen shot of the evaluation program

Poster for 'An Adaptive Personality Model for ECAs'

Publication

Xiao,H, Reid, D, Marriott, A, Gulland E 2005, 'An Adaptive Personality Model for ECAs', in The 1st International Conference of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, BeiJing, China.

Links

The Adaptive User Interfaces projects

The InterFace project

The VHML (Virtual Human Markup Language) project

The Metaface project

People

Andrew Marriott - supervisor

Donald Reid - supervisor

XIAO He ( Adam ) - Master by Research student

All of them are in the School of Computing at the Curtin University of Technology - Perth Western Australia .

raytrace@cs.curtin.edu.au - Send any questions or comments about personality to this email address.

News

5th June 2005

8th Feb 2005

Finished the brief research proposal.