Interacting with emotional virtual agents

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

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31

Interacting with emotional virtual agents

Elisabetta Bevacqua, Florian Eyben, Dirk K.J. Heylen, Mark ter Maat, Sathish Pammi, Catherine Pelachaud, Marc Schröder, Björn Schuller, Etienne de Sevin, Martin Wöllmer

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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.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	4th International ICST Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011
Editors	A. Camurri, C. Costa
Place of Publication	Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer
Pages	243-245
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-30213-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011 - Genova, Italy Duration: 25 May 2011 → 27 May 2011 Conference number: 4

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Publisher	Springer
Volume	78
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211

Conference

Conference	4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011
Abbreviated title	INTETAIN
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genova
Period	25/05/11 → 27/05/11

Keywords

virtual agentsemotions
HMI-IA: Intelligent Agents
human-machine interaction
METIS-296341
emotional virtual agents
Embodied Conversational Agents
IR-84570
EWI-23145

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Bevacqua, E., Eyben, F., Heylen, D. K. J., ter Maat, M., Pammi, S., Pelachaud, C., Schröder, M., Schuller, B., de Sevin, E., & Wöllmer, M. (2012). Interacting with emotional virtual agents. In A. Camurri, & C. Costa (Eds.), 4th International ICST Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011 (pp. 243-245). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 78). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31

Bevacqua, Elisabetta ; Eyben, Florian ; Heylen, Dirk K.J. et al. / Interacting with emotional virtual agents. 4th International ICST Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011. editor / A. Camurri ; C. Costa. Berlin Heidelberg : Springer, 2012. pp. 243-245 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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Interacting with emotional virtual agents. / Bevacqua, Elisabetta; Eyben, Florian; Heylen, Dirk K.J. et al.
4th International ICST Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011. ed. / A. Camurri; C. Costa. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. p. 243-245 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 78).

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Bevacqua E, Eyben F, Heylen DKJ, ter Maat M, Pammi S, Pelachaud C et al. Interacting with emotional virtual agents. In Camurri A, Costa C, editors, 4th International ICST Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. 2012. p. 243-245. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_31