Virtual human research has often modeled nonverbal behaviors based on the findings of psychological research. In recent years, however, there have been growing efforts to use auto...
During face-to-face conversation, the speaker’s head is continually in motion. These movements serve a variety of important communicative functions. Our goal is to develop a mod...
During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...
Abstract. How does a virtual agent’s gesturing behavior influence the user’s perception of communication quality and the agent’s personality? This question was investigated ...
During face-to-face conversation, people naturally integrate speech, gestures and higher level language interpretations to predict the right time to start talking or to give backc...