ERIC: an agent framework for embodied real-time intelligent commentary
M. Strauss, Name Martin Strauss · 2007
6 Process of development The agent framework was developed between February and May 2007, as part of the author’s Masters thesis. 7 Resources used • Nuance RealSpeak Solo for TTS speech generation, http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/solo • Charamel CharaVirld2 character environment, and CharaSpy debugger, http://www.charamel.de • Jess: the Java Expert System Shell, http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess • ALMA: A Layered Model of Affect, http://www.dfki.de/~gebhard/alma.html • Eclipse development environment for Java, http://www.eclipse.org 8 Resources required The agent framework was developed and tested on two PCs, both with a Pentium 4 CPU (3.2 GHz), 2 GB of RAM, and a NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card with 256 Mb onboard memory. One of the PCS runs Windows XP Professional SP2, and the other runs SuSE Linux 9.2. In addition, the Charamel software requires a parallel port hardware lock.