Rens Hoegen

Understanding Conversational and Expressive Style in a Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agent

Embodied conversational agents have changed the ways we can interact with machines. However, these systems often do not meet users' expectations. A limitation is that the agents are monotonic in behavior and do not adapt to an interlocutor. We present SIVA (a Socially Intelligent Virtual Agent), an expressive, embodie…