An easy to author dialogue management system for serious games

Mori, Daniele; Berta, Riccardo; Gloria, Alessandro De; Fiore, Valentina; Magnani, Lauto

doi:10.1145/2460376.2460381

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“…A particularly lively field of experimentation and debate has been the museum field. The discussion on the use of the virtual as a 'recontextualisation' focused on issues that had emerged during the layout design of the Museo Diocesano in Genova and then on the possibility of working on "virtual" museums [14] and experimenting interactive forms with the public [15].…”

Section: Dialoguing With Humanistic Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Alessandro De Gloria, a Pioneer in Electronic Engineering Applications

Bellotti,

Bricco,

Bruzzone

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Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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This article aims to sketch the figure of Alessandro De Gloria, a professor who dedicated his entire life, with generosity and enthusiasm, to engineering and scientific research. He designed one of the first chips in an Italian university and then a set of digital system architectures that contributed to shaping the then-fledgling field of microprocessors. Also, by founding the Applepies conference (International Conference on Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society), he promoted the intuition of the value for the whole population of the applications of electronic systems. He pioneered the field of mobile apps and started a fruitful dialogue with the humanistic culture, particularly exploiting virtual reality technologies. In the last few years, he also contributed to machine learning and big data, particularly in the domain of automated driving. He founded an MSc program on strategy, intending to shape education in that field from a rigorous engineering point of view. We believe that his generous and enthusiastic academic life can be an outstanding example in the face of today's challenges of Electronic Engineering and higher education in the broader societal context.

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Section: Dialoguing With Humanistic Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Alessandro De Gloria, a Pioneer in Electronic Engineering Applications

Bellotti,

Bricco,

Bruzzone

et al. 2024

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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“…The rating of helpfulness is smeared over two, three and four. Conversational systems with similar surveys obtained averages within the low threes, to four and a half [26]- [27]. However, these systems have a reduced input domain, as the system is who drives the dialog, and users know beforehand what to expect from the system.…”

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An Intelligent Natural Language Conversational System for Academic Advising

Latorre-Navarro¹

2015

ijacsa

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Abstract-Academic advisors assist students in academic, professional, social and personal matters. Successful advising increases student retention, improves graduation rates and helps students meet educational goals. This work presents an advising system that assists advisors in multiple tasks using natural language. This system features a conversational agent as the user interface, an academic advising knowledge base with a method to allow the users to contribute to it, an expert system for academic planning, and a web design structure for the implementation platform. The system is operational for several hundred students from a university department. The system performed well, obtaining close to 80%, on the traditional language processing measures of precision, recall, accuracy and F1 score. Assessment from the constituencies showed positive and assuring reviews. This work provides an assessment and technological solution to the academic advising field, i.e., the first-known advising multitask conversational system with adaptive measures for improvement. The evaluation in a real-world scenario shows its viability, and initiated the development of a corpus for academic advising, valuable for the academic and language processing research communities.

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“…Despite the limitations of this technique, traceability is optimal since the objects manipulated have been designed in advance and are therefore known and easily recorded. Predefined dialogues are therefore frequently in use in learning games, provided adequate authoring tools are resorted to in order to ease the writing [11].…”

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Communication and Knowledge Sharing in an Immersive Learning Game

Panzoli¹,

Pons-Lelardeux²,

Lagarrigue³

2015

2015 7th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games)

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Learning games are becoming a serious contender to real-life simulations for professional training, particularly in highly technical jobs where their cost-effectiveness is a sizeable asset. The most appreciated feature of a learning game is to provide in an automatic way to each learner an integrated feedback in real time during the game and, ideally, a personally meaningful debriefing at the end of each session. Immersive learning games use virtual reality and 3D environments to allow several learners at once to collaborate in the most natural way. Managing the communication on the other hand has proven so far a more difficult problem to overcome. In this article, we present a communication system designed to be used in immersive learning games. This innovative system is neither based on voice-chat nor branching dialogues but on the idea that pieces of information can be manipulated as tangible objects in a virtual environment. This system endeavours to offer the simplest and most intuitive way for several learners to acquire and share knowledge in an immersive virtual environment while complying with the requirements of a reliable assessment of their performance. A first experiment with nurse anaesthetist students gives evidence that this simple communication system is apt to support lifelike behaviours such as consultation, debate, conflict or irritation.

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An easy to author dialogue management system for serious games

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Alessandro De Gloria, a Pioneer in Electronic Engineering Applications

Alessandro De Gloria, a Pioneer in Electronic Engineering Applications

An Intelligent Natural Language Conversational System for Academic Advising

Communication and Knowledge Sharing in an Immersive Learning Game

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