Come and have an emotional workout with sensitive artificial listeners!

Schröder, Marc and Pammi, Sathish and Gunes, Hatice and Pantic, Maja and Valstar, Michel F. and Cowie, Roddy and McKeown, Gary and Heylen, Dirk and Maat ter, Mark and Eyben, Florian and Schuller, Björn and Wölmmer, Martin and Bevacqua, Elisabetta and Pelachaud, Catherine and Sevin de, Etienne (2011) Come and have an emotional workout with sensitive artificial listeners! In: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops, FG 2011, 21-25 March 2011, Santa Barbara, CA.

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Abstract:	This demonstration aims to showcase the recently completed SEMAINE system. The SEMAINE system is a publicly available, fully autonomous Sensitive Artificial Listeners (SAL) system that consists of virtual dialog partners based on audiovisual analysis and synthesis (see http://semaine.opendfki.de/wiki). The system runs in real-time, and combines incremental analysis of user behavior, dialog management, and synthesis of speaker and listener behavior of a SAL character, displayed as a virtual agent. The SAL characters intend to engage the user in a conversation by paying attention to the user's emotions and nonverbal expressions. The characters have their own emotionally defined personality. During an interaction, the characters attempt to create an emotional workout for the user by drawing her/him towards their dominant emotion, through a combination of verbal and nonverbal expressions.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2011 IEEE
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/79613
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FG.2011.5771472
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