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.
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
