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PUBLICATIONS

Measurement and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents

Published

Author(s)

Gregory A. Sanders, Jean C. Scholtz

Abstract

A formative evaluation for the DARPA Communicator project is used as an extended example ofevaluating a non-embodied conversational system, in order to provide context and illustrate howevaluating embodied agents requires extensions to existing techniques of evaluation.
Citation
Measurement and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents
Publisher Info
Embodied Conversational Agents Chapter in forthcoming book being published by MIT Press. Expected title: Embodied Conversational Agents,
Pub Type
Books

Keywords

Conversational agents, DARPA Communicator, dialogur, discourse, embodied, evaluation, metrics

Citation

Sanders, G. and Scholtz, J. (2001), Measurement and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents, Embodied Conversational Agents Chapter in forthcoming book being published by MIT Press. Expected title: Embodied Conversational Agents, (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created January 10, 2001, Updated February 17, 2017
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