Get Involved in an Interactive Virtual Tour of Brest Harbour: Follow the Guide and Participate

Mukesh Barange (1, 2) , Pierre de Loor (2) , Vincent Louis (3) , Ronan Querrec (2) , Julien Soler (2) , Thanh-Hai Trinh (2) , Eric Maisel (1, 2) , Pierre Chevaillier (1, 2)

1 ENIB - École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
2 Lab-STICC_ENIB_CID_IHSEV
3 Recherche et Développement

Recent cultural heritage applications have been based on rich-content virtual environment (VE), in which virtual humans can communicate with visitors and other agents using natural language (NL). The conceptualisation of these dialogues are dependent on the contents of the application. Hence, we propose to use the semantic modelling of the VE and the agents' activities for the conceptualisation of the dialogue. Meta-level semantic information are used as arguments in NLU/NLG rules. The advantage of this approach is that the dialogue rules are independent from the contents of the application and have clear semantics. We applied these principles to develop Brest'Coz, an interactive virtual tour for the learning of shipbuilding techniques used in France in early 18 th century.

Mots clés: Dialogue Management; Cultural Heritage; Semantic Modelling

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Mukesh Barange, Pierre de Loor, Vincent Louis, Ronan Querrec, Julien Soler, et al.. Get Involved in an Interactive Virtual Tour of Brest Harbour: Follow the Guide and Participate. IVA: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'11, Sep 2011, Reykjavick, Iceland. pp.93 - 99, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_10⟩. ⟨hal-01118117⟩