The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …

A key goal in agent research is to be able to generate multimodal characters that can reflect
a particular personality. The Big Five model of personality provides a framework for codifying …

Michael Alvarez-Pereyre received his PhD in English linguistics from the Sorbonne (Paris
IV). His research focuses on request strategies in English and particularly on the …

A wide area of research on Autonomous Agents is presently devoted to the construction of
ECAs, Embodied Conversational Agents (Cassell et al. 2000; Pelachaud & Poggi, 2001). An …

Our aim is to create an affective embodied conversational agent (ECA); that is an ECA able
to display communicative and emotional signals. Nonverbal communication is done through …

Stefano Predelli presents an original account of the relationships between the central
semantic notions of meaning and truth. Part One begins with the study of phenomena that …

In this paper we present our work toward the creation of a multimodal expressive Embodied
Conversational Agent (ECA). Our agent, called Greta, exhibits nonverbal behaviors …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the “dark nuances” of social media by
identifying moral disengagement (MD) mechanisms and hostile emotions in people …

Annotation. Este estudio investiga la relación entre los marcadores del discurso y la cortesía
verbal, dos categorías de la pragmática muy estudiadas y, sin embargo, todavía de perfil …

The objective to develop more human-centred, personalized and at the same time more
engaging speech-based interactive systems immediately leads to the metaphor of an …