SimSensei Demonstration: A Perceptive Virtual Human Interviewer for Healthcare Applications
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We present the SimSensei system, a fully automatic virtual agent that conducts interviews to assess indicators of psychological distress. We emphasize on the perception part of the system, a multimodal framework which captures and analyzes user state for both behavioral understanding and interactional purposes.
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