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IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Evaluating an Algorithm for the Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions in a Virtual World: A Pilot Study
This paper presents a quest for the most suitable setting and method to assess the naturalness of the output of an existing algorithm for the generation of multimodal referring exp...
Werner Breitfuss, Ielka van der Sluis, Saturnino L...
IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Mediating Performance through Virtual Agents
This paper presents the process of creation of virtual agents used in a virtual reality performance. The performance aimed to investigate how drama and performance could inform the...
Gabriella Giannachi, Marco Gillies, Nick Kaye, Dav...
IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
GNetIc - Using Bayesian Decision Networks for Iconic Gesture Generation
Expressing spatial information with iconic gestures is abundant in human communication and requires to transform a referent representation into resembling gestural form. This task ...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Probabilistic Model of Motor Resonance for Embodied Gesture Perception
Abstract. Basic communication and coordination mechanisms of human social interaction are assumed to be mediated by perception-action links. These links ground the observation and ...
Amir Sadeghipour, Stefan Kopp