Agent communication for believable human-like interactions between virtual characters

Abstract

Virtual characters in games or simulations are increasingly required to perform complex tasks in dynamic virtual environments. This includes the ability to communicate in a human-like manner with other characters or a human user. When applying agent technology to create autonomous, goal-directed characters, interactions have to be generated at runtime. In this paper we propose a model balancing efficient agent communication on one hand and believable realizations of human-like interactions on the other hand. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.