Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient embodied
human communication. The automatic generation of such co‐speech gestures is a long …

The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents provides a comprehensive overview of the
research fields of Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social …

When people are engaged in social interaction, they can repeat aspects of each other's
communicative behavior, such as words or gestures. This kind of behavioral alignment has …

We present a dataset of behavioural and fMRI observations acquired in the context of
humans involved in multimodal referential communication. The dataset contains audio/video …

During conversation, speakers modulate characteristics of their production to match their
interlocutors' characteristics. This behavior is known as alignment. Speakers align at many …

We give an overview of engagement in human-agent interaction. We discuss the different
definitions of engagement in human and social science, specify how they relate to certain …

The classic map** metaphor posits that children learn a word by map** it onto a
concept of an object or event. However, we believe that a map** metaphor cannot …

Think back on a time when you saw speakers engrossed in conversation. Even with out
hearing their words you can sense their connection. The participants seem tightly enmeshed …

When people interact to establish shared symbols for novel objects or concepts, they often
rely on multiple communicative modalities as well as on alignment (ie, cross-participant …

Communicating face-to-face, interlocutors frequently produce multimodal meaning
packages consisting of speech and accompanying gestures. We discuss a systematically …