@inproceedings{jan_checkpoint_2011,

title = {Checkpoint Exercise: Training with Virtual Actors in Virtual Worlds},

author = {Dusan Jan and Eric Chance and Dinesh Rajpurohit and David DeVault and Anton Leuski and Jacquelyn Morie and David Traum},

url = {http://www.ict.usc.edu/pubs/Checkpoint%20Exercise-%20Training%20with%20Virtual%20Actors%20in%20Virtual%20Worlds.pdf},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-09-01},

booktitle = {The 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, (IVA 2011)},

address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},

abstract = {We have implemented a checkpoint exercise in Second Life where the user interacts with several computer avatars in a team based activity. We describe the experience and the implementation of our solution and show some evaluation results.},

keywords = {Virtual Humans, Virtual Worlds},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{swartout_ada_2010,

title = {Ada and Grace: Toward Realistic and Engaging Virtual Museum Guides},

author = {William Swartout and David Traum and Ron Artstein and Dan Noren and Paul Debevec and Kerry Bronnenkant and Josh Williams and Anton Leuski and Shrikanth Narayanan and Diane Piepol and H. Chad Lane and Jacquelyn Morie and Priti Aggarwal and Matt Liewer and Jen-Yuan Chiang and Jillian Gerten and Selina Chu and Kyle White},

url = {http://ict.usc.edu/pubs/ada%20and%20grace.pdf},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-09-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2010)},

address = {Philadelphia, PA},

abstract = {To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum guides that are in use at the Museum of Science, Boston. The characters use natural language interaction and have near photoreal appearance to increase and presents reports from museum staff on visitor reaction},

keywords = {Graphics, Learning Sciences, Virtual Humans, Virtual Worlds},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{jan_virtual_2009,

title = {A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds},

author = {Dusan Jan and Antonio Roque and Anton Leuski and Jacquelyn Morie and David Traum},

url = {http://ict.usc.edu/pubs/A%20Virtual%20Tour%20Guide%20for%20Virtual%20Worlds.pdf},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference (IVA)},

address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},

abstract = {In this paper we present an implementation of a embodied conversational agent that serves as a virtual tour guide in Second Life. We show how we combined the abilities of a conversational agent with navigation in the world and present some preliminary evaluation results.},

keywords = {Virtual Humans, Virtual Worlds},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}