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GW
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Implementing Expressive Gesture Synthesis for Embodied Conversational Agents
We aim at creating an expressive Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) and address the problem of synthesizing expressive agent gestures. In our previous work, we have described the ...
Björn Hartmann, Maurizio Mancini, Catherine P...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
AAMAS
1999
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Fully Embodied Conversational Avatars: Making Communicative Behaviors Autonomous
: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
Justine Cassell, Hannes Högni Vilhjálm...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models
In earlier studies, user involvement with an embodied software agent and willingness to use that agent were partially determined by the aesthetics of the design and the moral fiber...
Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Johan F. ...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating models of speaker head nods for virtual agents
Virtual human research has often modeled nonverbal behaviors based on the findings of psychological research. In recent years, however, there have been growing efforts to use auto...
Jina Lee, Zhiyang Wang, Stacy Marsella