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What's the current emotion of the chatbot and how does the new observation (or internal thinking process, changed goals) influence the emotional state of the chatbot?
Nav. System responds to human emotions
 | by Erwin Van Lun on 21 Mar 2009 in Business News |
Summary: Nav.System that simulates emotion when reading out directions and detects the emotion of the driver
Ford has filed a patent called “Emotive Text-to-Speech System and Method” describing a system that can not only simulate emotion when reading out directions and describing traffic problems, but could also detect the emotion of the operator of the car and interact with them in ways designed to, oh, soothe a little road rage. The avatar is said to “appear to become frustrated” if the driver is a lead-foot, and may say “Your driving is hurting my fuel efficiency.” Or, if a driver is going too fast, the dash-bound assistant could turn blue, ask what’s wrong, and suggest a more direct route to their destination.
Empathetic virtual humans on the way
| by Erwin Van Lun on 5 Dec 2008 in Business News |
Summary: Agents of the Paris Institute of Technology communicate with speaking, facial expressions, head movements, hand gestures and gaze. Their agents also respond to facial expressions of their conversational partners.
Humans may soon be able to develop long-term relationships with virtual humans that are capable of reading and adapting to our emotions, say French researchers.
Professor Catherine Pelachaud, director of research from the Paris Institute of Technology presented her research this week at a meeting of the ARC Network in Human Communication Science in Sydney.
Pelachaud and colleagues are developing virtual humans, Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), that can act autonomously in a virtual environment. As well as speaking, the agents communicate with facial expressions, head movements, hand gestures and gaze.
They are working on virtual agent that can be taught to detect, via a webcam, the emotion of a person looking at the screen.
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