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The Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) framework is a modular framework that allows for the development of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). The goal of the GECA framework is to make it easy for researchers to integrate ECA components and facilitate the sharing of results and rapid prototyping of ECA systems. GECA has been extended with additional components from the SAIBA (Situation, Agent, Intention, Behavior, Animation) multimodal behavior generation framework project.

The GECA framework includes the VisagePlayerM, which is an extended version of the Visage Player from Visage Technologies, and is used as a platform for building presenter agents. The Dubravka agent is an example of an agent that has been implemented in the GECA development framework.

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A quiz game console based on a generic embodied conversational agent framework HH Huang, T Inoue, A Cerekovic, I Pandzic… – Intelligent Virtual …, 2007 – Springer This article describes an attempt to build a quiz game kiosk for show-room use based on the Generic Embodied Conversational Agent (GECA) Framework [1] that provides a general purpose architecture for connecting modularized ECA functional components for … Cited by 5 – Related articles – BL Direct – All 8 versions

Scripting Human-Agent Interactions in a Generic ECA Framework HH Huang, A Cerekovic, IS Pandzic… – … and Innovations in …, 2008 – Springer Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like CG characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conversations, ECA systems are sophisticated and are composed with assemblies of various functions. … Cited by 1 – Related articles – All 5 versions

Towards a multicultural ECA tour guide system A Cerekovic, HH Huang, I Pandzic, Y Nakano… – Intelligent Virtual …, 2007 – Springer … The tour guide system architecture is being carried out by a generic ECA framework (GECA framework) we introduced in our prior work [1]. Based on the low-level OpenAIR’s XML routing protocol [2], GECA framework provides a seamless integration of various components; the … Cited by 1 – Related articles – BL Direct – All 8 versions

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