Aria-Valuspa on the 18th ICMI, Tokyo
“Ask Alice: An Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent” The work of the ARIA-VALUSPA project was demonstrated on the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction – ICMI 2016 at Tokyo, Japan.
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Expressive Speech Synthesis and Affective Information Retrieval
Human communication is rich, varied, and often ambiguous. This reflects the complexity and subjectivity of our lives. For thousands of years, art, music, drama and story telling have helped us understand, come to terms with, and express the complexities of […]
Presentation of Milestone 1
On January 2016 the ARIA-VALUSPA team presented their integrated system to a camera crew which captured the first interactions with the avatar (based on the story “Alice in Wonderland”). This first Milestone will be followed by a next public version […]
Gartner identifies digital assistants as key to developing digital business opportunities
In the Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2016 and after, Gartner identified artificial intelligence and digital assistants as key to developing digital business opportunities. The market of Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) is growing considerably. Having simple tools to create […]
Joining the eNTERFACE ‘ 16, Twente
The ARIA – VALUSPA team participated on the eNTERFACE ‘ 16 at Twente, Netherlands. Dr. J. Wagner presented a tutorial on Aria’s underlying Social Signal Interpretation Framework SSI: “Working with the Social Signals Interpretation (SSI) framework”. More information about the […]
ARIA – VALUSPA on WDR
A reporter from the WDR (West German Broadcasting Cologne) visited the Lab for Human-Centered Multimedia at Augsburg University, and Johannes Wagner presented the Alice agent to him. Alice does not just answer the user’s questions about “Alice in Wonderland”, but […]