%0 Thesis %1 Schroeder11Phd %A Schröder, Marc %C Saarbrücken %D 2011 %K 01801 103 dfki book ai emotion processing middleware api multimodal user interaction agent interface zzz.mmi %R 10.22028/D291-26253 %T The SEMAINE API: A Component Integration Framework for a Naturally Interacting and Emotionally Competent Embodied Conversational Agent %X The present thesis addresses the topic area of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) with capabilities for natural interaction with a human user and emotional competence with respect to the perception and generation of emotional expressivity. The focus is on the technological underpinnings that facilitate the implementation of a real-time system with these capabilities, built from re-usable components. The thesis comprises three main contributions. First, it describes a new component integration framework, the SEMAINE API, which makes it easy to build emotion-oriented systems from components which interact with one another using standard and pre-standard XML representations. Second, it presents a prepare-and-trigger system architecture which substantially speeds up the time to animation for system utterances that can be pre-planned. Third, it reports on the W3C Emotion Markup Language, an upcoming web standard for representing emotions in technological systems. We assess critical aspects of system performance, showing that the framework provides a good basis for implementing real-time interactive ECA systems, and illustrate by means of three examples that the SEMAINE API makes it is easy to build new emotion-oriented systems from new and existing components.

@phdthesis{Schroeder11Phd, abstract = {The present thesis addresses the topic area of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) with capabilities for natural interaction with a human user and emotional competence with respect to the perception and generation of emotional expressivity. The focus is on the technological underpinnings that facilitate the implementation of a real-time system with these capabilities, built from re-usable components. The thesis comprises three main contributions. First, it describes a new component integration framework, the SEMAINE API, which makes it easy to build emotion-oriented systems from components which interact with one another using standard and pre-standard XML representations. Second, it presents a prepare-and-trigger system architecture which substantially speeds up the time to animation for system utterances that can be pre-planned. Third, it reports on the W3C Emotion Markup Language, an upcoming web standard for representing emotions in technological systems. We assess critical aspects of system performance, showing that the framework provides a good basis for implementing real-time interactive ECA systems, and illustrate by means of three examples that the SEMAINE API makes it is easy to build new emotion-oriented systems from new and existing components.}, added-at = {2018-03-21T12:36:15.000+0100}, address = {Saarbr\"{u}cken}, author = {Schr\"{o}der, Marc}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29c343d282f3c15096ae86515f722b577/flint63}, doi = {10.22028/D291-26253}, file = {SciDok SULB:2011/Schroeder11Phd.pdf:PDF}, groups = {public}, interhash = {a8da28c733c83b96cdb5ca6b2ebadbde}, intrahash = {9c343d282f3c15096ae86515f722b577}, keywords = {01801 103 dfki book ai emotion processing middleware api multimodal user interaction agent interface zzz.mmi}, month = {#jan#}, school = {Fachrichtung Informatik, Universit\"{a}t des Saarlandes}, timestamp = {2018-04-16T12:10:07.000+0200}, title = {The SEMAINE API: A Component Integration Framework for a Naturally Interacting and Emotionally Competent Embodied Conversational Agent}, type = {Dissertation}, username = {flint63}, year = 2011 }