{"pk":30055,"title":"An emotionally intelligent actor model for virtual conference presenters","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Hosting a scientific conference in Virtual or Mixed Reality becomes a reality. One key advantage of this format is thepossibility to use Virtual Actors controlled by Artificial Intelligence as conference participants, in such roles as a VirtualPoster Presenter, a Discussion Panel Moderator, a Lightning Session Chair, and a Virtual Party Servant. All these rolesrequire human-level socially emotional functionality and can be implemented using one approach, which is based on theemotional Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (eBICA). At the core of the model is a semantic map of humanemotional states. Interaction modalities include facial expression, gaze and other body language, voice intonation, and thesentiment of verbal content of communications - using both recognition and expression technologies for each modality.Paradigms involve establishment and maintenance of believable socially emotional contact with a human participant. Theconference BICA*AI 2020 (https://bica2020.bicasociety.org) is used as a testbed. Support: Russian Science FoundationGrant #18-11-00336.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mq214zv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alexei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Samsonovich","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Research Nuclear University","department":""},{"first_name":"Alexander","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Eidlin","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Research Nuclear University","department":""},{"first_name":"Daria","middle_name":"V.","last_name":"Tikhomirova","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Research Nuclear University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30055/galley/19909/download/"}]}