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Are You Listening to Me? Fine-Tuning Chatbots for Empathetic Dialogue
Paulo Ricardo Knob, Leonardo Scholler, Juliano Rigatti +1
Conversational agents have made significant progress since ELIZA, expanding their role across various domains, including healthcare, education, and customer service. As these agent…
Study of Non-Verbal Behavior in Conversational Agents
Camila Vicari Maccari, Gustavo Galle de Melo, Paulo Ricardo Knob +1
This paper studies the non-verbal behavior of a conversational agent named Arthur. We propose the development of body movements for this agent, which interacts solely through voice…
Crafting Realistic Virtual Humans: Unveiling Perspectives on Human Perception, Crowds, and Embodied Conversational Agents
Rubens Montanha, Victor Araujo, Paulo Knob +4
Virtual Humans (VHs) were first developed more than 50 years ago and have undergone significant advancements since then. In the past, creating and animating VHs was a complex task.…
WebCrowds: An Authoring Tool for Crowd Simulation
Gabriel Silva, Paulo Knob, Rubens Montanha +1
Crowd simulation is an area of research largely used in the game industry. From the movement of a single NPC to the movement of an entire army, crowd simulation methods can be used…
Is my agent good enough? Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents with Long and Short-term interactions
Juliane B. S. dos Santos, Paulo Ricardo Knob, Victor Putrich Scherer +1
The use of digital resources has been increasing in every instance of todays society, being it in business or even ludic purposes. Despite such ever increasing use of technologies…
Arthur: a new ECA that uses Memory to improve Communication
Paulo Knob, Willian S. Dias, Natanael Kuniechick +2
This article proposes an embodied conversational agent named Arthur. In addition to being able to talk to a person (using text and voice), he is also able to recognize the person h…