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

Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

A functional head-movement corpus and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for detecting
head-movement functions are presented for analyzing the multiple communicative functions …

In spoken conversations, speakers and their addressees constantly seek and provide
different forms of audiovisual feedback, also known as backchannels, which include …

The present pandemic forced our daily interactions to move into the virtual world. People
had to adapt to new communication media that afford different ways of interaction. Remote …

This contribution introduces backchannel relevance spaces–intervals where it is relevant for
a listener in a conversation to produce a backchannel. By annotating and comparing actual …

Abstract The Active Listening Corpus (ALICO) is a multimodal data set of spontaneous
dyadic conversations in German with diverse speech and gestural annotations of both …

We propose a system displaying audience eye gaze and nod reactions for enhancing
synchronous remote communication. Recently, we have had increasing opportunities to …

Conversations encompass continuous exchanges of verbal and nonverbal information.
Previous research has demonstrated that gestures dynamically entrain each other and that …

We report on an analysis of feedback behavior in an Active Listening Corpus as produced
verbally, visually (head movement) and bimodally. The behavior is modeled in an embodied …