Abstract. How to create effective body animations for virtual agents with emotions remains the state of the art for human animators and a great challenge for computer scientists. I...
This paper focuses on dimensional prediction of emotions from spontaneous conversational head gestures. It maps the amount and direction of head motion, and occurrences of head nod...
There is a growing belief that the environment plays an important role in the healing process of patients, supported by empirical findings. Previous research showed that psychologi...
We report on an experiment to implement an autonomous creature situated in a two-dimensional world, that shows various learning and problem-solving capabilities, within the Societ...
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...