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title: "Improving a Virtual Human Using a Model of Degrees of Grounding"
authors:
  - "Antonio Roque"
  - "David R. Traum"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2009/257"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2009/0257.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2009
pages: "1537-1541"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Improving a Virtual Human Using a Model of Degrees of Grounding

Antonio Roque, David R. Traum

*Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1537-1541.

## Abstract

We describe the Degrees of Grounding model, which tracks the extent to which material has reached mutual belief in a dialogue, and conduct experiments in which the model is used to manage grounding behavior in spoken dialogues with a virtual human. We show that the model produces improvements in virtual human performance as measured by post-session questionnaires.Antonio Roque, David Traum