Abstract. In this paper we present a model of facial behaviour encompassing interpersonal relations for an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA). Although previous solutions of this ...
People engage in small talk and conversational storytelling to provide information in engaging ways and to serve interpersonal goals such as building rapport and credibility. Embo...
We propose a method to recognize the `social attitude' of users towards an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) from a combination of linguistic and prosodic features. After de...
Fiorella de Rosis, Anton Batliner, Nicole Novielli...
Building trust with users is crucial in a wide range of applications, such as advice-giving or financial transactions, and some minimal degree of trust is required in all applicat...
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...