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The SEMAINE project

The Semaine project is an EU-FP7 1st call STREP project and aims to build a SAL, a Sensitive Artificial Listener, a multimodal dialogue system which can:

interact with humans with a virtual character
sustain an interaction with a user for some time
react appropriately to the user's non-verbal behaviour

In the end, this SAL-system will be released to a large extent as an open source research tool to the community.

The second public demonstrator system can now be found in the section.

Sample interactions with the system can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GMcKeownQUB?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/6KZc6e_EuCg

This is a sample interaction with one of the characters (recorded with the real system!)

The participating institutions are:

	DFKI, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany (coordinator)		ICSTM: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
	Paris8: Université Paris VIII, France		QUB: Queen's University Belfast, UK
	TUM: Technische Universität München, Germany		UT: Universiteit Twente, Netherlands