Emotional intelligence for computer-based characters?
This may open the door for new opportunities to enhance the user's experience ...
"A computer character, capable of realistic emotional expressions in human-computer communication has been prototyped and may soon be incorporated into working applications.
The research team in the IST project ERMIS, which focused on linguistic and paralinguistic cues in human speech and finished at the end of December 2004, created a prototype able to analyse and respond to user input. The team included researchers with skills ranging from engineering and computer science to psychology and human communication.
“In looking for emotional cues in language, we worked on three major inputs to the system,” explains Stefanos Kollias of the National Technical University of Athens. “Linguistic analysis of speech in English and Greek, work on paralinguistic features such as intonation and emphasis, and the study of facial expressions.” continued ... (Via IST Results)
"A computer character, capable of realistic emotional expressions in human-computer communication has been prototyped and may soon be incorporated into working applications.
The research team in the IST project ERMIS, which focused on linguistic and paralinguistic cues in human speech and finished at the end of December 2004, created a prototype able to analyse and respond to user input. The team included researchers with skills ranging from engineering and computer science to psychology and human communication.
“In looking for emotional cues in language, we worked on three major inputs to the system,” explains Stefanos Kollias of the National Technical University of Athens. “Linguistic analysis of speech in English and Greek, work on paralinguistic features such as intonation and emphasis, and the study of facial expressions.” continued ... (Via IST Results)
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