Embodied conversational agent (ECA) development is a time-consuming and costly process that calls for knowledge in a plethora of different and not necessarily adjacent disciplines. Engaging in activities outside of one's core research to acquire peripheral skills can impede innovation and potentially restrict the outcomes within the boundaries of those acquired skills. A proposal to tackle this challenge is creating collaborative communities of experts from the contributing disciplines to the field of ECAs that via clearly defined roles, expectations and communication channels can help extend the field of ECA research.

翻译：具身对话代理（ECA）的开发是一个耗时且成本高昂的过程，需要涵盖众多不同且未必相邻学科的知识。在核心研究领域之外从事活动以获取边缘技能，可能会阻碍创新，并可能将成果局限在这些获取技能的边界之内。解决这一挑战的一项建议是，建立由ECA领域相关学科专家组成的协作社区，通过明确界定的角色、期望和沟通渠道，有助于拓展ECA研究领域。