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 …

A person's emotions and state of mind are apparent in their face and eyes. As a Latin
proverb states:'The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers'. This presents a …

Gestures and speech interact. They are linked in language production and perception, with
their interaction contributing to felicitous communication. The multifaceted nature of these …

Social Signal Processing is the research domain aimed at bridging the social intelligence
gap between humans and machines. This paper is the first survey of the domain that jointly …

To increase the interest and engagement of middle school students in science and
technology, the InterFaces project has created virtual museum guides that are in use at the …

This article reports on the development of capabilities for (on-screen) virtual agents and
robots to support isolated older adults in their homes. A real-time architecture was …

We have developed a general purpose use and modular architecture of an Embodied
Conversational Agent (ECA) called Greta. Our 3D agent is able to communicate using verbal …

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 …

The empirical investigation of human gesture stands at the center of multiple research
disciplines, and various gesture annotation schemes exist, with varying degrees of precision …

This chapter describes current advances in emotion modeling for social robots. It begins by
contextualizing the role of emotions in social robots, considering the concept of the affective …