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Enhancing Embodied Conversational Agents with Social and Emotional Capabilities

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Agents for Games and Simulations (AGS 2009)

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In this paper we present our current work on an embodied conversational agent for training medical bad news conversations and discuss the inspiration gained from previous work of our own and others. Central in this research is the influence of emotional and social features on the selection and realization of conversational behavior.

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  1. Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Bart van Straalen, Dirk Heylen, Mariët Theune & Anton Nijholt

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  2. Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, 40 South Alcaniz Street, 32502, Pensacola, FL, USA

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van Straalen, B., Heylen, D., Theune, M., Nijholt, A. (2009). Enhancing Embodied Conversational Agents with Social and Emotional Capabilities. In: Dignum, F., Bradshaw, J., Silverman, B., van Doesburg, W. (eds) Agents for Games and Simulations. AGS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5920. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11198-3_7

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