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Behavior Markup Language
Stefan Kopp, Brigitte Krenn, Stacy Marsella, Andrew N. Marshall, Catherine Pelachaud, Hannes Pirker, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Norman Badler, Lewis Johnson
This project is part of an international effort to unify a multimodal behavior generation framework for Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). We propose a three stage model we call SAIBA where the stages represent intent planning, behavior planning and behavior realization. A Function Markup Language (FML), describing intent without referring to physical behavior, mediates between the first two stages and a Behavior Markup Language (BML) describing desired physical realization, mediates between the last two stages. In this paper we focus on BML. The hope is that this abstraction and modularization will help ECA researchers pool their resources to build more sophisticated virtual humans.
Project Items (downloadables)
| Name | Category | Sector | Description | Size | Date | Download |
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| Protocol BML workshop Nov06 | Other | Sector 1 | Protocol of the BML/Gesticon workshop in Vienna, Nov 6-8. | 90.6 KBytes | 2006-11-12 | Download |
| Paper at IVA'06 | Other | Sector 1 | First comprehensive paper on the SAIBA framework and the Behavior Markup Language in particular. | 482.6 KBytes | 2006-06-14 | Download |
| IVA 06 presentation | Other | Sector 1 | These are the slides of the SAIBA/BML presentation to IVA06 and the follow-up workshop in Vienna. | 760.6 KBytes | 2006-11-23 | Download |
Project created: 2006-06-14