An E-Partner is a photo-realistic conversation agent, which has a talking head that not only look photo-realistic but also can have a conversation with the user about a given topic...
Bo Zhang, Changbo Hu, Qingsheng Cai, Baining Guo, ...
In this paper we introduce a system that automatically adds different types of non-verbal behavior to a given dialogue script between two virtual embodied agents. It allows us to ...
Werner Breitfuss, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishiz...
This paper describes an animated conversational agent called Kare1 which integrates a talking head interface with a linguistically motivated human-machine dialogue system. The age...
Audio-visual emotion expression by synthetic agents is widely employed in research, industrial, and commercial applications. However, the mechanism through which people judge the ...
Emily Mower, Sungbok Lee, Maja J. Mataric, Shrikan...
What visual cues do human viewers use to assign personality characteristics to animated characters? While most facial animation systems associate facial actions to limited emotion...
Ali Arya, Lisa N. Jefferies, James T. Enns, Steve ...