In this paper, we describe an exploratory study to develop a model of visual attention that could aid automatic interpretation of exophors in situated dialog. The model is intended...
Donna K. Byron, Thomas Mampilly, Vinay Sharma, Tia...
We aim at creating Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) able to communicate multimodally with a user or with other ECAs. In this paper we focus on the Gestural Mind Markers, that ...
Virtual conversational agents are supposed to combine speech with nonverbal modalities for intelligible and believeable utterances. However, the automatic synthesis of coverbal ge...
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common groun...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, Just...
: Conventional discussion environments provide the technical platform for distributed discussion and collaboration, but apart from some statistical data collected, rarely provide i...