van Welbergen H, Yaghoubzadeh R, Kopp S. AsapRealizer 2.0: The Next Steps in Fluent Behavior Realization for ECAs. In: Bickmore T, Marsella S, Sidner C, eds. Intelligent Virtual Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol 8637. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014: 449-462.Natural human interaction is highly dynamic and responsive: interlocutors produce utterances incrementally, smoothly switch speaking turns with
virtually no delay, make use of on-the-fly adaptation and (self) interruptions, execute movement in tight synchrony, etc. We present the conglomeration of our research efforts in enabling the realization of such fluent interactions for Embodied Conversational Agents in the behavior realizer ‘AsapRealizer 2.0’ and show
how it provides fluent realization capabilities that go beyond the state-of-the-art
