Robots that have different forms and capabilities are used in a wide variety of situations;
however, one common point to all robots interacting with humans is their ability to …

Automatic emotion recognition from the analysis of body movement has tremendous
potential to revolutionize virtual reality, robotics, behavior modeling, and biometric identity …

We have recently demonstrated that motor execution, observation, and imagery of
movements expressing certain emotions can enhance corresponding affective states and …

Designing computational support for dance is an emerging area of HCI research,
incorporating the cultural, experiential, and embodied characteristics of the third-wave shift …

Consistently exhibited personalities are crucial elements of realistic, engaging, and behavior-
rich conversational virtual agents. Both nonverbal and verbal cues help convey these …

Imitation of human movement by robots is an important area of research to create expressive
systems that are able to interact with humans in social settings. One lens through which …

Conditional human motion generation is an important topic with many applications in virtual
reality gaming and robotics. While prior works have focused on generating motion guided by …

Virtuosity in music performance is often associated with fast, precise, and efficient sound-
producing movements. The generation of such highly skilled movements involves complex …

Many areas in computer science are facing the need to analyze, quantify and reproduce
movements expressing emotions. This paper presents a systematic review of the intelligible …

This paper presents a model for generating expressive robot motions based on human
expressive movements. The proposed data-driven approach combines variational …