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FlurMax, a virtual agent, inhabits a hallway at the University of Bielefeld. He resides in a wide-screen panel equipped with a video camera to track and interact with visitors using speech, gesture, and emotional facial expression. For example, FlurMax will detect the presence of visitors and greet them with a friendly wave, saying ”Hello, I am Max”. FlurMax also recognizes simple gesturing of the by-passer, such as waving, and produces natural multimodal behaviors in response. FlurMax’s behavior selection is controlled by a simple emotional/motivational system which gradually changes his mood between states like happy, bored, surprised, and neutral.
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Jung, B., Kopp, S. (2003). FlurMax: An Interactive Virtual Agent for Entertaining Visitors in a Hallway. In: Rist, T., Aylett, R.S., Ballin, D., Rickel, J. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39396-2_5
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