WASABI (software)

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WASABI Affect Simulation Architecture
Developer(s) Christian Becker-Asano
Initial release 2011
Written in C++, Qt
Available in English
Type Scientific computing
License LGPL
Website www.becker-asano.de/index.php/research/wasabi

WASABI [1] is a simulation software that aims to simulate emotions for computer systems, esp. embodied agents and social robots. Its development is motivated by the ideas behind Affective Computing in that it tries to simulate human affect. It provides a graphical user interface based on Qt. It is free software [2] under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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