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SUMMARY:Modeling Social Agents - Professor Catherine Pelachaud
DTSTART:20110607T101500Z
DTEND:20110607T111500Z
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CONTACT:Neil Dodgson
DESCRIPTION:We will present on-going work on endowing virtual agent with s
 oft conversational skills. We will concentrate on multimodal nonverbal beh
 aviours\, for the locator and the interlocutor within a dyadic interaction
 . We will present a real-time platform of agents that exhibit backchannel 
 signals in relation to their interlocutors (be virtual or real (human user
 )). We will illustrate our topic with examples from the EU-project SEMAINE
  where we have developed 4 agents called Sensitive Artificial Listeners ab
 le to engage the user in a conversation. We will present another study we 
 are conducting dealing with smile. Smile may take different meanings depen
 ding on its morphological properties and interaction context. We consider 
 3 types of smile: happy\, polite and embarrassed. To find out about smile 
 morphological characteristics\, we asked participants to create interactiv
 ely these smiles onto a virtual agent. The results of this study allowed u
 s also to enlarge the repertoire of behaviors of the agent.
LOCATION:Rainbow Room (SS03)\, Computer Laboratory
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