Zara The Supergirl: An Empathetic Personality Recognition System

Zara: A Virtual Interactive Dialogue System Incorporating Emotion, Sentiment and Personality Recognition

Zara, or {`}Zara the Supergirl{'} is a virtual robot, that can exhibit empathy while interacting with an user, with the aid of its built in facial and emotion recognition, sentiment analysis, and speech module. At the en…

Zara Returns: Improved Personality Induction and Adaptation by an Empathetic Virtual Agent

Towards Empathetic Human-Robot Interactions

Since the late 1990s when speech companies began providing their customer-service software in the market, people have gotten used to speaking to machines. As people interact more often with voice and gesture controlled m…

StyEmp: Stylizing Empathetic Response Generation via Multi-Grained Prefix Encoder and Personality Reinforcement

Recent approaches for empathetic response generation mainly focus on emotional resonance and user understanding, without considering the system's personality. Consistent personality is evident in real human expression an…

Empathetic Conversational Agents: Utilizing Neural and Physiological Signals for Enhanced Empathetic Interactions

Conversational agents (CAs) are revolutionizing human-computer interaction by evolving from text-based chatbots to empathetic digital humans (DHs) capable of rich emotional expressions. This paper explores the integratio…