Demo: Have a Chat with Sensitive Artificial Listeners
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Conversational Agent paper
published in 2010
by Marc Schröder, Sathish Pammi, Roddy Cowie, Gary McKeown, Hatice Gunes, Maja Pantic, Michel Valstar, Dirk Heylen,
Mark ter Maat, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller, Martin Wöllmer, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Catherine Pelachaud and Etienne de Sevin
in
Emotion,
Personality
Sensitive Artificial Listeners (SAL) are virtual dialogue partners based on audiovisual analysis and synthesis. Despite their very limited verbal understanding, they intend to engage the user in
a conversation by paying attention to the user’s emotions and nonverbal expressions. The SAL characters have their own emotionally defined personality, and attempt to drag the user towards their dominant emotion through a combination of verbal and non-verbal expression. The demonstrator shows the publicly available, fully autonomous SAL system.