Background Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are computer-generated animated
humanlike characters that interact with users through verbal and nonverbal behavioral cues …

Engagement is crucial to designing intelligent systems that can adapt to the characteristics
of their users. This paper focuses on the automatic analysis and classification of …

Engagement is the process by which participants establish, maintain, and end their
perceived connection. Automatic engagement inference is one of the tasks required to …

In educational HRI, it is generally believed that a robots behavior has a direct effect on the
engagement of a user with the robot, the task at hand and also their partner in case of a …

Human–robot interaction (HRI) in human social environments (HSEs) poses unique
challenges for robot perception systems, which must combine asynchronous …

Recognition of intentions is a subconscious cognitive process vital to human
communication. This skill enables anticipation and increases the quality of interactions …

An integral part of seamless human-human communication is engagement, the process by
which two or more participants establish, maintain, and end their perceived connection …

BACKGROUND: Embodied conversational agents (ECA) are possible enablers of assistive
technologies, in particular for older adults with cognitive impairment. Yet, dedicated …

We present the first experiment we conducted to evaluate the attention monitoring
performance of Louise, following a Wizard of Oz method, during the interactions with a …

Background: The integration of technology-based interventions into health and care
provision in our aging society is still a challenge especially in the care pathway for people …