Interactive Virtual ChatBots
IDIA Lab’s chatbots provide interactions with virtual 3D animated non-player characters (NPC) that can be created with customized persona profiles. Users can converse with NPCs via voice or text input, where the virtual characters use artificial intelligence to assess the tone of the conversation and reflect simulated responses with facial animation, gesture, and vocal intonation. The lab engages ChatGPT and other AI software to assemble an integrated system within the game engine of Unity to create a robust real time user engagement with an infinite variety of customized NPC profile modeling – from historical characters to highly specific technical interactions.