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Interacting with a Semantic Affective ECA

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This paper presents an affective enhanced semantic ECA named E-VOX. The core of E-VOX is a cognitive-affective architecture based on Soar and extended with an affective model inspired by ALMA, that takes into account emotions, mood, and personality. E-VOX works as an assistant to provide useful information from Wikipedia, supporting real-feel human-computer interaction. User interaction with the ECA is explained and first tests with users are shown. These tests have revealed that the ECA is perceived as useful, easy to use and entertaining. Thanks to the cognitive-affective architecture, the agent’s behavior is modulated its personality, influencing agent-user interaction and the perception of the agent by the user. The agent’s emotional behavior has been perceived by users as realistic though not always sufficiently expressive.

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  1. Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering (DIIS), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Joaquín Pérez, Yanet Sánchez, Francisco J. Serón & Eva Cerezo

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jonas Beskow

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Christopher Peters

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ginevra Castellano

  4. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Carol O'Sullivan

  5. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Iolanda Leite

  6. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

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Pérez, J., Sánchez, Y., Serón, F.J., Cerezo, E. (2017). Interacting with a Semantic Affective ECA. 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_47

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