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Proceeding of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents, AISB
Empathic interaction with a virtual guide
2005 •
Ruth Aylett
The Empathic Tour Guide System is a context-aware mobile system, including an 'intelligent empathic guide with attitude', offering the user a seamless, temporally and spatially dependent, multi-modal interaction interface. It will consist of two virtual agents each possessing a contrasting personality, presenting users with different versions of the story of the same event or place. An Emergent Empathic Model with Personality is proposed as a mechanism for action selection and affective processing. The system will mould to the ...
Virtual Social Agents
MediaStage a Tool for Authoring Experiments in Empathic Interaction
2001 •
Donna Burton-Wilco*ck
Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents
Learning to reason about other people’s minds
2005 •
Rineke Verbrugge
To investigate to what extent people use and acquire complex skills and strategies in the domains of reasoning about others and natural language use, an experiment was conducted in which it was beneficial for participants to have a mental model of their opponent, and to be aware of pragmatic inferences. It was found that, although participants did not seem to acquire complex skills during the experiment, some participants made use of advanced cognitive skills.
Unnatural but lively voice synthesis for empathic, synthetic performers
2005 •
Alistair Edwards
Abstract We want to build an empathic, synthetic, machine voice that is not natural but is lively. By natural we mean, that the effect may be distinctively not human and manifestly not from any natural source. By lively, we mean the quality of sound we associate with a live spoken or musical performance as distinct from one that has been pre-recorded. We do not expect the voice to communicate clear English. Words are likely to be indistinct in the way that singing communicates affectively usually at the expense of clarity.
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Ruth Aylett
The European AMI project is concerned with new multi-modal technologies to support human interaction, in the context of smart meeting rooms and remote meeting assistants. The project aims to enhance the value of multi-modal meeting recordings. These goals will be achieved by developing new tools for computersupported cooperative work and by designing new ways to search and browse meetings as part of an integrated multi-modal group communication.
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
From Chatterbots to Natural Interaction -- Face to Face Communication with Embodied Conversational Agents
2005 •
Elisabeth André
Affective appraisal versus cognitive evaluation in social emotions and interactions
2000 •
Cristiano Castelfranchi
I claim that two important aspects of emotions are usually missed by current computational models and uses. On the one side, human emotions are complex and rich mental states, not simple reactive mechanisms. They have rich cognitive ingredients, in particular “evaluations”. I will propose some brief example of such a necessary “cognitive anatomy”(in terms of beliefs and goals) of complex social emotions (for ex. shame) and of the “meaning” of their expression.
Emotions in Short Vowel Segments Effects of the Glottal Flow as
Rajasekhar Butta
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
In Search of Embodied Conversational and Explainable Agents for Health Behaviour Change and Adherence
2021 •
Amal bint AbdulRahman
Conversational agents offer promise to provide an alternative to costly and scarce access to human health providers. Particularly in the context of adherence to treatment advice and health behavior change, they can provide an ongoing coaching role to motivate and keep the health consumer on track. Due to the recognized importance of face-to-face communication and establishment of a therapist-patient working alliance as the biggest single predictor of adherence, our review focuses on embodied conversational agents (ECAs) and their use in health and well-being interventions. The article also introduces ECAs who provide explanations of their recommendations, known as explainable agents (XAs), as a way to build trust and enhance the working alliance towards improved behavior change. Of particular promise, is work in which XAs are able to engage in conversation to learn about their user and personalize their recommendations based on their knowledge of the user and then tailor their expla...
Effective Tutoring with Empathic Embodied Conversational Agents
2014 •
sharon moyo
This thesis examines the prospect of using empathy in an Embodied Tutoring System (ETS) that guides students through an online quiz (by providing feedback on student answers and responding to self-reported student emotion). The ETS seeks to imitate human behaviours successfully used in one-to-one human tutorial interactions. The main hypothesis is that the interaction with an empathic ETS results in greater learning gains than a neutral ETS, primarily by encouraging positive and reducing negative student emotions using empathic feedback. In a preparatory study we investigated different strategies for expressing emotion by the ETS. We established that a multimodal strategy achieves the best results regarding how accurately human participants can recognise the emotions. This approach was used in developing the feedback strategy for our empathic ETS. The preparatory study was followed by two studies in which we compared a neutral with an empathic ETS. The ETS in the second of these stu...
