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Toward Accessible Psychotherapy Training Using AI-Driven Interactive Patient Avatars featured image

Toward Accessible Psychotherapy Training Using AI-Driven Interactive Patient Avatars

An AI-driven simulated patient system for ACT psychotherapy training, combining clinically grounded virtual patients with real-time turn-by-turn ACT fidelity feedback. Expert …

P. Riachi
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Mind Companion: An Embodied Conversational Agent for Process-Based Psychotherapy

Mind Companion is an LLM-based embodied conversational agent for process-based psychotherapy, integrating real-time psychological analysis, RAG from therapeutic literature, and …

S. Kamber
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Talking to Your Data: Exploring Embodied Conversation as an Interface for Personal Health Reflection

A system enabling users to "talk to their health data" through an embodied conversational agent using a dual-agent architecture, compared against traditional dashboards in a pilot …

N. Kovačević
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PhonemeNet: A Transformer Pipeline for Text-Driven Facial Animation featured image

PhonemeNet: A Transformer Pipeline for Text-Driven Facial Animation

A transformer pipeline for text-driven facial animation exploiting phoneme-level speech structure, achieving real-time performance and best-in-class lip synchronization accuracy. …

P. Witzig
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egoEMOTION: Egocentric Vision and Physiological Signals for Emotion and Personality Recognition in Real-World Tasks featured image

egoEMOTION: Egocentric Vision and Physiological Signals for Emotion and Personality Recognition in Real-World Tasks

A new multimodal dataset and architecture combining egocentric vision and physiological signals for in-the-wild emotion and personality recognition, presented at NeurIPS 2025 …

M. Jammot
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Steering Narrative Agents through a Dynamic Cognitive Framework for Guided Emergent Storytelling

A dynamic cognitive framework for narrative agents in interactive storytelling, combining BDI representations with LLM generation to balance story coherence with player agency. …

C. Yang
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BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Agents featured image

BEE: Belief-Value-Aligned, Explainable, and Extensible Cognitive Framework for Conversational Agents

BEE is a modular cognitive framework for conversational agents featuring belief management, value alignment, transparent reasoning, and extensibility. Best Paper Honorable Mention …

C. Yang
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A Joint Personality-Emotion Framework for Personality-Consistent Conversational Agents

A joint framework modeling personality and emotion for personality-consistent conversational agents, using contrastive learning to decouple emotion from semantic content. IVA 2025. …

N. Kovačević
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A Platform for Interactive AI Character Experiences

A full-pipeline platform for interactive AI character experiences, demonstrated through Digital Einstein and deployed at scientific conferences, technology events, and public …

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Rafael Wampfler
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Immersive Conversations with Digital Einstein: Linking a Physical System and AI

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Emerging Technologies demonstration describing the physical installation and AI integration of Digital Einstein at the Tokyo venue.

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Rafael Wampfler
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