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 …

Dialogue systems have achieved growing success in many areas thanks to the rapid
advances of machine learning techniques. In the quest for generating more human-like …

Diffusion models have experienced a surge of interest as highly expressive yet efficiently
trainable probabilistic models. We show that these models are an excellent fit for …

Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human
behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect …

Previous work has shown that non-verbal behaviors affect anthropomorphic inferences
about artificial communicators such as virtual agents or social robots. In an experiment with …

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 …

This work explores the effect of chatbot personality on user experience and investigates how
users perceive agent personality when conveyed through text. Building on previous work in …

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

The number of industrial robots and collaborative robots on manufacturing shopfloors has
been rapidly increasing over the past decades. However, research on industrial robot …

Co‐speech gestures are a vital ingredient in making virtual agents more human‐like and
engaging. Automatically generated gestures based on speech‐input often lack realistic and …