Eye gaze plays an important role in communication but understanding of its actual function
or functions and the methods used to elucidate this have varied considerably. This …

In face-to-face interactions, parties rapidly react and adapt to each other's words,
movements and expressions. Any science of face-to-face interaction must develop …

Brief addressee responses such as uh huh, oh, and wow, which are called backchannels,
are typically considered reactive phenomena–devices that respond in various ways to what …

La compréhension des mécanismes du langage nécessite de prendre en compte très
précisément les interactions entre les différents domaines ou modalités linguistiques, ce qui …

Current methodologies in corpus linguistics have revolutionized the way we look at
language. They allow us to make objective observations about written and spoken …

Conversational agents (CAs) have the great potential in mitigating the clinicians' burden in
screening for neurocognitive disorders among older adults. It is important, therefore, to …

In spoken conversations, speakers and their addressees constantly seek and provide
different forms of audiovisual feedback, also known as backchannels, which include …

We propose in this paper a statistical model in the perspective of predicting listener's
feedbacks in a conversation. The first contribution of the paper is a study of the prediction of …

We manually designed rules for a backchannel (BC) prediction model based on pitch and
pause information. In short, the model predicts a BC when there is a pause of a certain …

We evaluate multimodal rule-based strategies for backchannel (BC) generation in face-to-
face conversations. Such strategies can be used by artificial listeners to determine when to …