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QuickWoZ: a multi-purpose wizard-of-oz framework for experiments with embodied conversational agents

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Muhammad Waqas Latif,

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IUI '10: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 427 - 428

https://doi.org/10.1145/1719970.1720055

Published: 07 February 2010 Publication History

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Herein we describe the QuickWoZ system, a Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) tool that allows for the remote control of the behavior of animated characters in a 3D environment. The complete scene, character, behaviors and sounds can be defined in simple XML documents, which are parsed at runtime, so that setting up an experiment can be done without programming expertise. Quick selection lists and buttons enable the wizard to easily control the agents' behavior and allow for fast reactions to the subjects' input.

The system is tailored for experiments with embodied conversational agents (ECAs) featuring multimodal interaction and was designed as a rapid prototyping system for evaluating the impact of an agent's behavior on the user.

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QuickWoZ: a multi-purpose wizard-of-oz framework for experiments with embodied conversational agents
1. Human-centered computing
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IUI '10: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

February 2010

460 pages

ISBN:9781605585154

DOI:10.1145/1719970

General Chairs:
Charles Rich
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
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Qiang Yang
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
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Program Chairs:
Marc Cavazza
Teesside University, UK
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Michelle Zhou
IBM Research, China

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