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Chatting with a Virtual Agent: The SEMAINE Project Character Poppy

This video shows an example interaction between a user and the virtual character Poppy, a Sensitive Artificial Listener created by the SEMAINE project, http://www.semaine-project.eu. The SEMAINE software is open source and can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/semaine/

DFKI is the coordinator of the project. The participating institutions are:

ICSTM: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
Paris8: Université Paris VIII, France
QUB: Queen’s University Belfast, UK
TUM: Technische Universität München, Germany
UT: Universiteit Twente, Netherlands