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Webinar: New Digital Accessibility Legislation

How to comply with updated digital accessibility legislation! - Current insights into the research on avatar-based automated sign translation in the collaborative projects AVASAG & BIGEKO.

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Events 2024

Events 2024 - Here you can find all our events for 2024 and sign up for them

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Avatar Gloria provides support in Service-Meister's AI education program

Avatar Gloria assists in the AI training program of Service-Meister, an AI-based service ecosystem for technical service in the age of Industry 4.0

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Municipal Sign Language Avatar (MSLA) - Survey Results on Requirements and Wishes of Municipalities and Districts

The Municipal Sign Language Avatar (KGA) project aims to implement an AI-based platform for automated translation of municipal texts into sign language.

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FAQs about digital sign language translation - research project AVASAG

In connection with our AVASAG webinars, you will find frequently asked questions about sign translation and AVASAG.

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FAQs about digital sign language translation - research project AVASAG

Avatars for sign language: "Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit" in the advisory board of the research project AVASAG

03/02/2022 - The AVASAG research project, which has been running since May 2020, focuses on a human-centered participation solution.

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Webinar: New neural voices for customized interactive learning modules with avatars as instructors

Here we show you the process from your content to the finished learning module as well as the possibilities to manage the learning progress of your participants and to monitor the progress in the learning process.

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Webinar: New neural voices for customized interactive learning modules with avatars as instructors

Webinar: Avatars and Metaverses - Trend or Opportunity for Your Company

If you follow the current press, 3D avatars and virtual worlds offer endless opportunities. Tech giants like Meta and Microsoft Teams are betting on virtual alter-egos.

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Webinar: Avatars and Metaverses - Trend or Opportunity for Your Company

Happy Halloween from VuppetMaster

Want to let scary stories come alive in 3D? And use digital avatars for virtual scares? It's easy with VuppetMaster, the interactive and cloud-based authoring tool!

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Meet updated digital accessibility legislation with sign avatar in short term

How you as a company or public authority can break new digital ground to meet updated digital accessibility legislation in the short term!

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With Avatars as Emotional Visual User Interfaces to the "Next Level User Experience"

Or how to revolutionize the customer approach and increase customer satisfaction. Who can relate? Self-service portals, endless FAQ, Chatbots where a lot of typing is required and no solution is delivered? Improve your UX!

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With Avatars as Emotional Visual User Interfaces to the "Next Level User Experience"

Cartoon, human-like or realistic? - New research on avatar styles

Which avatar style is right for your application? Which virtual appearance is accepted by your target group?

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Webinar: Boosting Customer Satisfaction with Avatars

Next Level User Experience (UX) with emotional Visual User Interfaces - Or how to increase customer satisfaction and boost profits with avatars!

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Webinar: Boosting Customer Satisfaction with Avatars

Emotional assistants for autonomous vehicles

Empathic human-machine interaction for trust building in autonomous vehicles.

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Emotional assistants for autonomous vehicles

Interview With An Avatar

Avatar interviews allow a very objective evaluation free of stereotypes, prejudices and all other distractor

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EMMI: Automated driving - research project

04.11.2020 - Charamel researches together with partners from industry and research an empathic human-machine-interaction to increase the acceptance of automated driving

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AVASAG - 3D sign language avatar for automated translation of text into signs

05.05.2020 - Charamel develops a translation system for sign language together with partners from research and industry

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Digital Avatar as virtual trainer for the vehicle fleet

05.03.2020 - Together with save4drive, Charamel GmbH has developed a browser-based eLearning course for driver training.

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Covid-19 - Charamel supports for free with intelligent assistant Gloria

08.04.2020 - Virtual assistant Gloria informs about Covid-19. The interactive information platform is online: https://live.vuppetmaster.de/corona/

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Covid-19 - Charamel supports for free with intelligent assistant Gloria

Charamel presents the first Digital Concierge @ MWC 2020

07.02.2020 - Charamel presents a Digital Concierge at the international mobile communications congress in Barcelona and shows how digitalization can be made more human and intuitive.

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Charamel presents the first Digital Concierge @ MWC 2020

Charamel at the DMEXCO 2019

12.08.2019 - At this year's DMEXCO in Cologne Charamel GmbH presents its product VuppetMaster

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Play it! Tour

01.07.2019 - Since 2016 Play it! has been touring through Germany's shopping centres and thrilling with our innovative and interactive live presenter Felix.

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Virtual Trainer - 3D avatars as ideal knowledge mediators

27.06.2019 - The learning platform Virtual Trainer from Charamel enables web-based, efficient and cost-effective training around the clock.

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Virtual Trainer - 3D avatars as ideal knowledge mediators

Charamel at the Healthcare Hackathon in Mainz

13.06.2019 - Charamel successfully participated in the Avatar Challenge with IBM

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Charamel at the Healthcare Hackathon in Mainz

An Avatar at the patient admissions desk

18.04.2019 - Starting in May, a digital employee will take in patients at the University Hospital Lübeck and conduct the first preliminary talks

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Charamel at the Hannover Messe 2019

25.03.2019 - Charamel presents new solutions for interactive learning and training under the motto 3D Assisted Learning

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VuppetMaster® - 3D avatars easy to use

14.02.2019 - The new web-based platform to create interactive 3D avatars for any application!

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VuppetMaster is online!

08.02.2019 - Our tool for easy creating and running Avatar-based interactive 3D applications is now available.

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Charamel looks back on an eventful year 2018

20.12.2018 - A successful year is drawing to a close and we are looking forward to many new projects in 2019!

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Charamel looks back on an eventful year 2018

New VuppetMaster engine renders VR flawlessly!

11.12.2018 - News from the Charamel lab! We are continuously working on our tool for avatar-based 3D applications, VuppetMaster®.

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New VuppetMaster engine renders VR flawlessly!

VW upgrades their cars to be compatible with Apple's Siri voice assistant - in the US only

13.11.2018 - VW upgrades their cars to be compatible with Apple's Siri voice assistant. Tesla did it and now VW enables their customers to use voice recognition in their cars as well.

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VW upgrades their cars to be compatible with Apple's Siri voice assistant - in the US only

Charamel and Parlamind at the Digital2018 fare

06.11.2018 - Using an online shop for drone technology as a use case scenario, Parlamind and Charamel teamed up to present a new assistance system that will revolutionise customer support.

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Charamel and Parlamind at the Digital2018 fare

The Railmate App in ICE trains

05.11.2018 - One of many projects of the Deutsche Bahn is set to facilitate travelling and even make it more comfortable due to Railmate.

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More than 50% of the german population are sceptical regarding "Industry 4.0"

29.10.2018 - "Industry 4.0" makes most of the german population fear unemployment due to replacement through an AI. India and China are very much looking forward to the technological revolution.

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More than 50% of the german population are sceptical regarding "Industry 4.0"

Alexa is going to evaluate the user's health by voice analysis

15.10.2018 - Alexa is going to analyse the user's voice and help out by ordering medicine

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Alexa is going to evaluate the user's health by voice analysis

Support for psychological stress at the workplace: Emotional mobile Avatar as coaching assistant (EmmA)

4.10.2018 - In the BMBF-funded project "EmmA" Charamel and his partners are working on an interactive, mobile assistance system for psychological stress at the workplace.

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Mistakes during machine learning - Technical certificates for AI technologies?

25.09.2018 - Technical certificates for AI technologies

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Mistakes during machine learning - Technical certificates for AI technologies?

"EmmA" - Emotional mobile Avatar as psychological assistance coach

17.09.2018 - Project "EmmA" has officially kicked off!

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Memojis - Customizable Avatars

11.09.2018 - Customizable Memojis are coming to iOS 12

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Lack of investments in digital education

30.08.2018 - According to Bitkom, the need for further education in medium sized businesses is on the rise...

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Lack of investments in digital education

Digitization is changing the education

14.06.2018 - One of the main topics at the Cebit 2018

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VuppetMaster® - It does not take long time anymore!

07.06.2018 - VuppetMaster® - It does not take long time anymore! Charamel will soon launch the new platform VuppetMaster®

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Virtual Avatar Sarah at the MWC 2018

27.03.2018 - Daimler Financial Services presented "Sarah” at the MWC 2018: A digital Avatar that can react on speech and emotions.

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Will intelligent machines replace humans?

13.03.2018 - Artificial intelligence makes great leaps forward. Where will the future take us?

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Will intelligent machines replace humans?

Coming soon: VuppetMaster Online

06.03.2018 - 3D Avatars in all common browsers without using additional plugins. The VuppetMaster development work is running at full blast.

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Robots and Feelings?

02.02.2018 - Systems with emotion recognition can recognize and interpret human feelings. The project EmpaT enables a virtual training of a job interview with an Avatar.

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Artificial intelligence as a perfect friend?

25.01.2018 - Imagine robots could replace our real friends and take their appearance and personality.

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Artificial intelligence as a perfect friend?

Christmas greetings with the Animated Greeting Card

21.12.2017 - We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Felix is sending you greetings with the Animated Greeting Card

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Christmas greetings with the Animated Greeting Card

Charamel und DFKI schließen Kooperationsvertrag im Bereich Digitale Assistenzsysteme

Mit dem Launch der Avatar-Plattform VuppetMaster® arbeitet Charamel gemeinsam mit dem DFKI noch tiefgehender an neuen multimodalen Assistenzsystemen mit 3D Avataren. Das DFKI erhält Zugriff auf die neue Software-Plattform und den Support.

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Charamel und DFKI schließen Kooperationsvertrag im Bereich Digitale Assistenzsysteme

Avatars are more popular than ever!

07.12.2017 - Snapchats Bitmoji allow to create an individual 3D Avatar. The famous Bitmojis are the current trend.

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Deep Learning is everywhere!

30.11.2017 - Deep Learning is everywhere! In speech recognition or image editing. Computers can learn by itself and are able to win difficult games.

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Humanoid robots are in demand

27.11.2017 - Humanoid robots are the most popular agents! Researchers discussed this topic at this year’s International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.

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Roboter becomes citizen in Saudi Arabia

09.11.2017 - The first Robot ever to be given a citizenship by Saudi Arabia! Sophia is a humanoid robot and imitates human gestures.

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And the winner is... PLAY IT!

30.10.2017 - Within the 29. International Computer Art Forums in Sofia Play it! is prized twice.

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Play it! at the Computer Space event in Bulgaria

26.10.2017 - Play it! is presented at the Computer Space event in Bulgaria and is nominated for the jury and audience award.

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Play it! at the Computer Space event in Bulgaria

Gatebox with holographic character Hikari

19.10.2017 - The Gatebox brings the holographic character Hikari to life and allows an interaction with the user.

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Gatebox with holographic character Hikari

Nomination for the Computer Space Award

12.10.2017 - Charamel is nominated for the Computer Space Award of the International Computer Art Forums.

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What are Chatbots?

25.09.2017 - What are Chatbots? Chatbots become more important in the customer support.

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Animojis - The new Apple Emoticons

11.09.2017 - Apple presented Animoji, animated Emoticons with mimik and gesture. A field in which Charamel develops and creates applications for years.

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Virtual Coach in an interactive Training

28.08.2017 - Have you ever thought about interactive trainings with Avatars? Get to know various advantages for you and your employees!

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Virtual Coach in an interactive Training

Play it! in the Schlosspark-Center Schwerin

21.08.2017 - On Thursday Play it! visits the Schlosspark-Center in Schwerin. Gaming fun and thrill guaranteed!

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Play it! in the Schlosspark-Center Schwerin

Charamel as SemDial sponsor Saarbrücken 2017

14.08.2017 - In addition to Facebook and Microsoft, Charamel is a sponsor of this year's SemDial-conference about voice-dialogue systems.

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Charamel as SemDial sponsor Saarbrücken 2017