Sign languages are used by the deaf community around the globe to communicate with one
another. These are gesture-based languages where a deaf person performs gestures using …

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 …

This paper describes a substantial effort to build a real-time interactive multimodal dialogue
system with a focus on emotional and nonverbal interaction capabilities. The work is …

We demonstrate a method for generating a 3D virtual character performance from the audio
signal by inferring the acoustic and semantic properties of the utterance. Through a prosodic …

How is communicative gesture behavior in robots perceived by humans? Although gesture
is crucial in social interaction, this research question is still largely unexplored in the field of …

Many deaf people have significant reading problems. Written content, eg on internet pages,
is therefore not fully accessible for them. Embodied agents have the potential to …

In greeting encounters, first impressions of personality and attitude are quickly formed and
might determine important relational decisions, such as the likelihood and frequency of …

This paper describes our approach on the development of the expression of emotions on a
robot with constrained facial expressions. We adapted principles and practices of animation …

Cognitive restructuring is a well-established mental health technique for amending
automatic thoughts, which are distorted and biased beliefs about a situation, into objective …

Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs) offer users with interactive face-to-face conversations.
They can take the role of a speaker and communicate verbally and nonverbally their …