During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...
This special issue describes a number of applications that utilize lifelike characters that teach indirectly, by playing some role in a social interaction with a user. The design ...
This paper focuses on the mapping strategies in the interface design for the Expression Synthesis Project (ESP). The goal of ESP is to use the metaphor of driving to allow non-exp...
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
When articulated figures interact in a 3D environment, collisions are highly likely and must often be avoided. We present a method automatically producing realistic collision-free...