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FlurMax: An Interactive Virtual Agent for Entertaining Visitors in a Hallway

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2003)

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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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  1. Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Lab, University of Bielefeld,  

    Bernhard Jung & Stefan Kopp

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  1. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth S. Aylett

  3. BT plc, Adastral Park, IP5 3RE, Ipswich, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  4. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, 90292-6695, Marina del Rey, CA

    Jeff Rickel

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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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