Universität Bielefeld - Technische Fakultät - AG Wissensbasierte Systeme

Becker, C., Prendinger, H., Ishizuka, M. & Wachsmuth, I.
Empathy for Max (preliminary project report)

The 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT-05)
Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan (pp. 541-545), 2005.

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Abstract:

This paper first describes two independently conducted research strands on affective human-computer interaction: one on an emotion simulation system for an expressive 3D humanoid agent called Max, which was designed at the University of Bielefeld [8, 2]; the other one on a real-time system for empathic (agent) feedback that is based on human emotional states derived from physiological information, and developed at the University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Informatics [15]. Then, the integration of both systems is suggested for the purpose of realizing a highly believable agent with empathic qualities.