Gender/ing guides how we view ourselves, the world around us, and each other—including
non-humans. Critical voices have raised the alarm about stereotyped gendering in the …

Communication between people is characterized by a broad range of nonverbal cues.
Transferring these cues into the design of robots and other artificial agents that interact with …

Embodied agents, ie, computer-controlled characters, have proven useful for various
applications across a multitude of display setups and modalities. While most traditional work …

The avatar is a digital character that represents a person in a virtual environment, such as
the metaverse. It is widely used in games and is also becoming a reality in other domains …

While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

Participating in urban traffic is inherently risky for humans. There-fore, in psychology,
behavioural studies have been using Virtual Reality (VR) to simulate and experiment with …

Politeness and embodiment are pivotal elements in human-agent interactions. While many
previous works advocate the positive role of embodiment in enhancing these interactions, it …

Serious games with virtual characters heavily depend on character properties related to
social interactions and awareness. This paper presents social-aware navigation for crowds …

Mixed reality, which seeks to better merge virtual objects and their interactions with the real
environment, offers numerous potentials for the improved design of robots and our …

When people use agent characters to travel through different spaces (such as virtual scenes
and real scenes, or different game spaces), it is important to reasonably position the …