Over the past few years we have been develo** an expressive embodied conversational
agent system. In particular, we have developed a model of multimodal behaviours that …

Building conversational agents that can conduct natural and prolonged conversations has
been a major technical and design challenge, especially for community-facing …

We propose DeepExpr, a novel expression transfer approach from humans to multiple
stylized characters. We first train two Convolutional Neural Networks to recognize the …

Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only
natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …

We examine whether reported roles in school bullying, and victimization in the workplace,
are connected; the influence of victim co** strategies at school; and sex differences. A …

This paper describes the results of a research project aimed at implementing a 'realistic'3D
Embodied Agent that can be animated in real-time and is 'believable and expressive': that is …

The ability to communicate is one of the core aspects of human life. For this, we use not only
verbal but also nonverbal signals of remarkable complexity. Among the latter, facial …

Develo** an embodied conversational agent able to exhibit a humanlike behavior while
communicating with other virtual or human agents requires enriching the dialogue of 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 …

Objectives: To evaluate functioning, 18 months after surgery, of 49 patients with good
neurological recovery following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), and to …