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Crowd-Powered Design of Virtual Attentive Listeners

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017)

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This demo presents a web-based system that generates attentive listening behaviours in a virtual agent acquired from audio-visual recordings of attitudinal feedback behaviour of crowdworkers.

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Jonell, P., Oertel, C., Kontogiorgos, D., Beskow, J., Gustafson, J. (2017). Crowd-Powered Design of Virtual Attentive Listeners. In: Beskow, J., Peters, C., Castellano, G., O'Sullivan, C., Leite, I., Kopp, S. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_21

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