We present the results of an experiment investigating the effects of a talking head's gaze behavior on the user's quality assessment of the interface. We compared a vers...
Ivo van Es, Dirk Heylen, Betsy van Dijk, Anton Nij...
This paper deals with understanding referring expressions involving perceptual grouping. The ability to use referring expressions is important for conversational agents aimed at r...
In this paper we present a discussion about believability for Virtual Environments, emotional simulation and also Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). We will discuss about the ...
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, HyungSeok Kim, Arjan Egge...
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...
This paper presents the NICE fairy-tale game system, which enables adults and children to engage in conversation with animated characters in a 3D world. In this paper we argue that...
Joakim Gustafson, Johan Boye, Morgan Fredriksson, ...