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Catherine Pelachaud

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Catherine Pelachaud is a French computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction, known for her work on virtual assistants and on recognizing and generating facial expressions. She is a research director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research, based at the Institut des Systemes Intelligents et de Robotique, a joint research facility with Sorbonne University, and earned her PhD in computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. She received the 2015 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award for her sustained and substantial contributions to intelligent virtual agents, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva in 2016.

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Catherine Pelachaud (Wikipedia)
  • In Field: Human Computer Interaction, Lead sentence
    Catherine Pelachaud is a French computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction and known for her work virtual assistants and on recognizing and generating facial expressions.
  • In Field: Human Computer Interaction, Lead paragraph
  • In Group: Human-Computer Interaction, Lead section
    specializing in human-computer interaction
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