ORIENT: interactive agents for stage-based role-play

ABSTRACT

We present a demonstration of the intelligent agent-based system ORIENT (Overcoming Refugee Integration with Empathic Novel Technology). We summarise the application domain: education for inter-cultural empathy; the technology used and the innovations this involves; and finally interaction with ORIENT.

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INDEX TERMS

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors

Keywords:
applications, artificial intelligence, virtual agents (models of personality, emotions and social behavior)