Towards an Expressive Embodied Conversational Agent Utilizing Ethnicity and Gender to Augment Solution Focused Therapy
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In this article, we present ongoing research, EMO, an affective embodied conversational agent platform, aimed at depicting multi-ethnic, multi-modal communication patterns in a credible manner. We employ the methodology of integrating counseling concepts early in the design to effectively target a specific domain. The system is geared to augment solution focused therapy. We present a prototype of the architecture as proof of concept and evaluate the platform for affect portrayal.
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