@incollection{springerlink:10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_15,
author = "Santos P{\'e}rez, Marcos and Gonz{\'a}lez Parada, Eva and Cano Garc{\'i}a, Jos{\'e} Manuel",
abstract = "Due to a growing older population, researchers and industry are paying
	more attention to the needs of this group of people. Ambient Intelligence
	(AmI) aims to help people in their daily lives, achieving a more
	natural interaction of users with an electronic home environment.
	Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) arise as a natural interface
	between humans and AmI. Our contribution is to present AVATAR: an
	architecture to develop ECAs based on open source tools and libraries.
	In the current prototype the virtual agent acts as a natural control
	interface of the home automation system. In addition, we provide
	the details to allow its use by Spanish speakers.",
booktitle = "Ambient Assisted Living",
editor = "Bravo, Jos{\'e} and Herv{\'a}s, Ram{\'o}n and Villarreal, Vladimir",
isbn = "9783642213021",
note = "10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_15",
pages = "109-115",
publisher = "Springer Berlin / Heidelberg",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
title = "{AVATAR}: {A}n {O}pen {S}ource {A}rchitecture for {E}mbodied {C}onversational {A}gents	in {S}mart {E}nvironments",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_15",
volume = "6693",
year = "2011",
}