Birgit Lugrin (maiden name Birgit Endrass) is a
professor for media informatics at the University of Würzburg,
Germany. Since her first contact with a socially interactive agent
(the Greta agent) in 2003, she has been fascinated about the
research area. Ten years later, she received the prestigious
IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award and the
research award from Augsburg University for her doctoral thesis
titled “Cultural Diversity for Virtual Characters”. Today she could
not be happier about the chance to co-edit this handbook and work
with all the great researchers who have contributed to make this
happen.
Catherine Pelachaud is Director of research at
CNRS in the ISIR Laboratory, Sorbonne University. She received her
PhD in Computer Graphics at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 1991. She participated in the elaboration
of the first embodied conversation agent system, Gesture-Jack, with
Justine Cassell, Norman Badler, and Mark Steedman when she was a
post-doctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. With
her research team, she has been developing an interactive virtual
agent platform, Greta, that can display emotional and communicative
behaviors.
David Traum is the Director for Natural Language
Research at the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and
Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Southern California (USC). He leads the Natural
Language Dialogue Group at ICT. Traum’s research focuses on
dialogue communication between humans and artificial agents. He has
engaged in theoretical, implementational, and empirical approaches
to the problem, studying human–human natural language and
multimodal dialogue, as well as building a number of dialogue
systems to communicate with human users. Traum earned his PhD in
Computer Science at the University of Rochester in 1994.
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