{"id":7037,"date":"2022-08-12T02:06:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/progetti\/as-an-angel\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T02:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:06:14","slug":"as-an-angel","status":"publish","type":"progetti","link":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/progetti\/as-an-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"AS AN ANGEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years, a certain number of &#8220;virtual&#8221; creatures have started to populate the Internet and other networks, offering a range of services, from leisure to information search assistance to user-defined preferences filtering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In very general terms, an assistant is a virtual character which essentially will help users accurately, efficiently and quickly find information over the Web.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aim of AS AN ANGEL is to create a general-purpose conversational and customisable assistant for Internauts and cellular phone users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The particular agent is based on the combination of three currently available technologies:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6;\">linguistic engineering and multi-agents programming;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.6;\">3D modelling and facial animation (including lips synchronization and the expression of emotions); body animation and behaviours (including bones animation for the web use);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.6;\">voice synthesis and recognition.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The objective of the project is to create a multitask conversational assistant, with an anthropomorphic face and 3D animations of the character\u2019s body that is able to dialogue in a natural way with its user in order to enable them to interact more effectively with the Internet and its environment: cellular phones, computers, organizers, televisions, smart houses, smart home devices, intelligent cars etc..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This particular version of a virtual agent is suitable to be applicable to a vast range of tasks: navigate users through the Web, help them surfing a given portal or filling in online forms and templates, support them in Web marketing promotion activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conversational interaction allows users to naturally interact with the virtual character, which shows human-like behavior such as turn exchange, facial expressions, gestures and conventional body postures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, a certain number of &#8220;virtual&#8221; creatures have started to populate the Internet and other networks, offering a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7035,"template":"","tag-sottositi":[],"acf":{"type_of_project":"1","acronym":"As An Angel","title":"A Virtual Assistant for Cellular Phones Users and Internetauts","funding_body":"European Commission","funding_programme":"5th Framework Programme","grant_agreement":"FP5-IST-2000-29298","start_date":"20011001","end_date":"20021231","role":"Beneficiary","project_coordinator":"","project_chair":[{"person":"Antonio Zampolli"}],"ilc_research_un":null,"programme_coord":"","contact_person":"","staff":[{"person":"Claudia Soria"}],"documentation":null,"websites":[{"website":"http:\/\/www.mayva.com"}],"nid":"281","lang":"en","tnid":"281"},"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/asanangel.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti\/7037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/progetti"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-sottositi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-sottositi?post=7037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}