Interacting with Emotional Virtual Agents

Elisabetta Bevacqua; Florian Eyben; Dirk Heylen; Mark Maat; Sathish Pammi; Catherine Pelachaud; Marc Schröder; Björn Schuller; Etienne Sevin; Martin Wöllmer

Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Interacting with Emotional Virtual Agents

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31,
    author={Elisabetta Bevacqua and Florian Eyben and Dirk Heylen and Mark Maat and Sathish Pammi and Catherine Pelachaud and Marc Schr\o{}der and Bj\o{}rn Schuller and Etienne Sevin and Martin W\o{}llmer},
    title={Interacting with Emotional Virtual Agents},
    proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={INTETAIN},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={Embodied Conversational Agents human-machine interaction},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31}
}

Elisabetta Bevacqua
Florian Eyben
Dirk Heylen
Mark Maat
Sathish Pammi
Catherine Pelachaud
Marc Schröder
Björn Schuller
Etienne Sevin
Martin Wöllmer
Year: 2012
Interacting with Emotional Virtual Agents
INTETAIN
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31

Elisabetta Bevacqua¹^,*, Florian Eyben²^,*, Dirk Heylen³^,*, Mark Maat³^,*, Sathish Pammi⁴^,*, Catherine Pelachaud¹^,*, Marc Schröder⁴^,*, Björn Schuller²^,*, Etienne Sevin⁵^,*, Martin Wöllmer²^,*

1: CNRS ParisTech
2: Technische Universität München
3: Universiteit Twente
4: DFKI GmbH
5: Université Pierre et Marie Curie

*Contact email: bevacqua@telecom-paristech.fr, eyben@tum.de, d.k.j.Heylen@ewi.utwente.nl, maatm@ewi.utwente.nl, Sathish_Chandra.Pammi@dfki.de, pelachaud@telecom-paristech.fr, marc.schroeder@dfki.de, schuller@tum.de, etienne.de-sevin@lip6.fr, woe@mmk.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de

Abstract

Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) is a multimodal dialogue system which allows users to interact with virtual agents. Four characters with different emotional traits engage users is emotionally coloured interactions. They not only encourage the users into talking but also try to drag them towards specific emotional states. Despite the agents very limited verbal understanding, they are able to react appropriately to the user’s non-verbal behaviour. The demonstrator shows an final version of the fully autonomous SAL system.

Keywords: Embodied Conversational Agents human-machine interaction

Published: 2012-10-22

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31

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