Krishnaswamy, NikhilBeveridge, RossPustejovsky, JamesPatil, DhruvaMcNeely-White, David G.Wang, HetingOrtega, Francisco R.Kulik, Alexander and Sra, Misha and Kim, Kangsoo and Seo, Byung-Kuk2020-12-012020-12-012020978-3-03868-112-01727-530Xhttps://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20201282https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/egve20201282In this paper, we illustrate the role that situated awareness plays in modeling human interactions with Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). Here we describe Diana, a multimodal IVA who exists within an embodied Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) environment. Diana is a multimodal dialogue agent enabling communication through language, gesture, action, facial expressions, and gaze tracking, in the context of task-oriented interactions.Human centered computingNatural language interfacesHCI10.2312/egve.2020128227-28