Socialite in derSpittelberg: Incorporating Animated Conversation into a Web-Based Community-Building Tool

摘要

In this paper, we describe an application where embodied conversational characters are integrated into an existing application which functions as a community building tool accessible via the Web. We discuss a number of design criteria which arise on the one hand from the task to simulate animated human-like conversation (which is watched by the user), and which arise on the other hand from technical restrictions imposed by the Web and the computing facilities of an average non-expert computer user.