Abstract
We present a demonstration of the ARIA framework, a modular approach for rapid development of virtual humans for
information retrieval that have linguistic, emotional, and social skills and a strong personality. We demonstrate the capabilities of our framework in a scenario where a popular book from the English literature, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, is embodied by a virtual human called Alice. During the presentation one can engage in an information exchange dialogue, where Alice acts as the expert on the book, and the user as an interested novice. Besides speech recognition, sophisticated audio-visual behaviour analysis is used to inform the core agent dialogue module about the user’s state and intentions, so that it can go beyond simple chat-bot dialogue. The behaviour generation module features a unique new capability of being able to deal gracefully with interruptions of the agent.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016 |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 419-420 |
Number of pages | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-4556-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2016 |
Event | 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 12 Nov 2016 → 16 Nov 2016 Conference number: 18 |
Conference
Conference | 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016 |
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Abbreviated title | ICMI |
Country | Japan |
City | Tokyo |
Period | 12/11/16 → 16/11/16 |