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Welbo

Published 1 April 2000
Mahoro Anabuki, Hiroyuki Kakuta, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hideyuki Tamura
Citations68

TL;DR

A new type of anthropomorphic agent that lives in a 3D space where the real and virtual worlds are seamlessly merged, and this agent has several unique features, compared with the conventional desktop agent.

Abstract

This paper introduces a new type of anthropomorphic agent that lives in a 3D space where the real and virtual worlds are seamlessly merged. In this mixed reality (MR) space, people wearing a see-through head-mounted display can interact with both physical and virtual objects in real time. In this type of MR space, an embodied conversational agent, named Welbo, is implemented to study how agent technology contributes. This agent has several unique features, compared with the conventional desktop agent.

Keywords

PsychologyEngineering