SimSensei Demonstration: A Perceptive Virtual Human Interviewer for Healthcare Applications

Louis-Philippe Morency, Giota Stratou, David DeVault, Arno Hartholt, Margot Lhommet, Gale M. Lucas, Fabrizio Morbini, Kallirroi Georgila, Stefan Scherer, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, David R. Traum, Albert A. Rizzo

Abstract: 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.