'How was your day?': an affective companion ECA prototype

Authors:
Marc Cavazza;Raúl Santos de la Cámara;Markku Turunen;José Relaño Gil;Jaakko Hakulinen;Nigel Crook;Debora Field
Affiliations:
Teesside University, Middlesbrough;Telefónica I+D, Madrid;University of Tampere, FI;Telefónica I+D, Madrid;University of Tampere, FI;Oxford University, Oxford;Sheffield University, Sheffield
Venue:
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a dialogue system in the form of an ECA that acts as a sociable and emotionally intelligent companion for the user. The system dialogue is not task-driven but is social conversation in which the user talks about his/her day at the office. During conversations the system monitors the emotional state of the user and uses that information to inform its dialogue turns. The system is able to respond to spoken interruptions by the user, for example, the user can interrupt to correct the system. The system is already fully implemented and aspects of actual output will be used to illustrate.