Thursday, October 9, 2008

The worst blogger ever?

- might just be me, it is quite obvious by now that I never wrote a diary with continuity as a child... Well well, a quick catching up:
This year I've continued to work with statecharts for designing dialogue managers. In particular I wanted to investigate whether it was possible to create a dialogue manager that could handle social dialogues, which in this case means capable of taking rules for social behaviour as well as emotions and personality into account. I presented a poster on the topic at the IVA conference in Tokyo in September and will present a short paper describing the dialogue manager in more detail at the ACE conference in Yokohama, December.

The next step now is to create a web-based game in which the players can interact with a conversational agent amongst other things. The game design is under development and I write it while testing different ways of using web services that could be of use for the game. In this project I am actually mostly concerned about how to use and combine different technologies, so gameplay may fall short I'm afraid.

In November I plan to attend Project horseshoe in Austin, and I am really looking forward to discuss the future of games and gaming with these prominent game developers.

So, looking forward to what seems to be a great autumn!