The UTEP AGENT System

This paper describes a system for embodied conversational agents (ECAs) developed at the University of Texas at El Paso by the Advanced aGent ENgagement Team (AGENT) and one of the applications -- Survival on Jungle Island -- built with this system. In the Jungle application, the ECA and a human interact with speech and gesture for approximately 40 -- 60 minutes in a game composed of 23 scenes (to maintain the demonstration feasible, participants will interact only with select scenes that showcase the capabilities of our system). Each scene comprises a collection of speech input, speech output, gesture input, gesture output, scenery, triggers, and decision points.