Employing Virtual Humans for Interaction, Assistance and Information Provision in Ambient Intelligence Environments

摘要: This paper reports on the design, development and evaluation of a framework which implements virtual humans for information provision. The can be used to create interactive multimedia visualizations e.g., images, text, audio, videos, 3D models provides dynamic data modeling mechanism storage retrieval communication through multimodal interaction techniques. may involve human-to-agent, agent-to-environment or agent-to-agent communication. supports alternative roles agents who act as assistants existing systems, standalone "applications" even integral parts emerging smart environments. Finally, an study was conducted with participation 10 people developed system in terms usability effectiveness, when it is employed assisting another application. results were highly positive promising, confirming system's encouraging further research this area.