Upgrading some skills provides additional dialog options; attractive and charismatic characters seduce to get their way, aggressive characters threaten and others persuade their targets to cooperate.
Vicarious dialogs were used to explain concepts that were either contained a nuanced skill (e.g., a common but subtle misconception that learners might not articulate), a step that required multiple simultaneous skills (to enable focusing the dialog on one of them), or a concept that might be hard to process using natural language dialog responses.
RavenClaw isolates the domain-specific aspects of the dialog control logic from domain-independent conversational skills, and in the process facilitates rapid development of mixed-initiative systems operating in complex, task-oriented domains.
Character attributes, skills, reputation and karma affect dialog options with NPCs.
With OMAS we tried to answer the problems of architecture, skill definition, protocol implementation, ontologies, dialog using natural language, and debugging, so as to simplify the work of an application designer.
The purpose of this far-transfer test was to determine if certain generalizable skills and strategies from the dialogs (e.g., identifying variables, verifying answers) would improve performance on related general mathematics tasks.
To advance in this direction, the biology education community may greatly benefit from a national dialog aimed at developing a consensus on what specific QL skills biology students need, and how to build them in the college curriculum.
Thus, motor skills in robots should be acquired in a natural dialog with humans, e.g., by imitation learning and shaping, while skill refinement and generalization should be accomplished autonomously by the robot.
Students learn the skills of scientific reasoning by engaging in interactive dialogs with avatars.
System developers can focus exclusively on describing the dialog task control logic, while a large number of domain-independent conversational skills such as error handling, timing and turn-taking are transparently supported and enforced by the RavenClaw dialog engine.
