Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only
natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …

Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by
which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the …

Previous work on statistical language generation has primarily focused on grammaticality
and naturalness, scoring generation possibilities according to a language model or user …

While the effects of virtual agents in terms of likeability, uncanniness, etc. are well explored,
it is unclear how their appearance and the feedback they give affects people's reactions. Is …

Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture
offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of …

Embodied conversational agents have been proven to be powerful tools for engaging users
in interactions and thus are suitable for training scenarios that rely on a role-playing …

With the advent of spoken dialogue systems (SDS), communication can no longer be
considered a human-to-human transaction. It now involves machines. These mechanisms …

Producing plays, films or animations is a complex and expensive process involving various
professionals and media. Our proposed software system, SceneMaker, aims to facilitate this …

Abstract An Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is an intelligent agent that enables real-
time human/computer interaction in natural language. For its rich style of communication …

This paper presents the analysis of the multimodal behavior of experienced practitioners of
job interview coaching, and describes a methodology to specify their behavior in Embodied …