Wanner, LeoBlat, JosepDasiopoulou, StamatiaDomínguez Bajo, MónicaLlorach, GerardMille, SimonSukno, Federico MateoKamateri, EleniKompatsiaris, IoannisVrochidis, StefanosAndré, ElisabethLingenfelser, FlorianMehlmann, GregorStam, AndriesStellingwerff, LudoLamel, LoriVieru, BiancaMinker, WolfgangPragst, LouisaUltes, Stefan2016-07-272016-07-272016Wanner L, Blat J, Dasiopoulou S, Domínguez M, Llorach G, Mille S, Sukno F, Kamateri E, Kompatsiaris I, Vrochidis S, André E, Lingenfelser F, Mehlmann G, Stam A, Stellingwerff L, Lames. Towards a multimedia knowledge-based agent with social competence and human interaction capabilities. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction (MARMI 2016); 2016 Jun 6; New York, USA. New York: ACM, 2016. p. 21-6. DOI: 10.1145/2927006.2927011http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27219We present work in progress on an intelligent embodied conversation agent in the basic care and healthcare domain. In contrast to most of the existing agents, the presented agent is aimed to have linguistic cultural, social and emotional competence needed to interact with elderly and migrants. It is composed of an ontology-based and reasoning-driven dialogue manager, multimodal communication analysis and generation modules and a search engine for the retrieval of multimedia background content from the web needed for conducting a conversation on a given topic.application/pdfeng© ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction (MIRMI 2016). http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2927006.2927011info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2927006.2927011Embodied agentDialogueMultimodal communicationRetrievalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess