We present a novel framework for easy creation of interactive, platform-independent voice-services with an animated 3D talking-head interface, on mobile phones. The framework supp...
Aspects of speech and non-verbal behavior allow conversational partners to establish and maintain rapport by signaling engagement or endorsement. In the verbal channel, these fact...
—This paper proposes a novel method of learning a users preferred reward modalities for human-robot interaction through solving a cooperative training task. A learning algorithm ...
Within the framework of the project NICE (Natural Interactive Communication for Edutainment) [2], we have been developing an educational and entertaining computer game that allows...
Andrea Corradini, Manish Mehta, Niels Ole Bernsen,...
We motivate an approach to evaluating the utility of synthetic agents that is based on human physiology rather than questionnaires. The primary tool is an eye tracker that provide...
Helmut Prendinger, Chunling Ma, Jin Yingzi, Kushid...