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Chatting with a Virtual Agent: The SEMAINE Project Character Spike

This video shows an example interaction between a user and the virtual character Spike, 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/

This video was filmed at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, as part of the system evaluation. DFKI is the coordinator of the project.

The other participating institutions are:

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