Engagement is a concept of the utmost importance in human-computer interaction, not only
for informing the design and implementation of interfaces, but also for enabling more …

The automatic monitoring and assessment of the engagement level of learners in distance
education may help in understanding problems and providing personalized support during …

Humans use signs, eg, sentences in a spoken language, for communication and thought.
Hence, symbol systems like language are crucial for our communication with other agents …

We describe an attentive listening system for the autonomous android robot ERICA. The
proposed system generates several types of listener responses: backchannels, repeats …

Affect-aware socially assistive robotics (SAR) has shown great potential for augmenting
interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, current SAR …

Social engagement is a key indicator of an individual's socio-emotional and cognitive states.
For a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), this serves as an important factor in …

Over the past years, extensive research has been dedicated to develo** robust platforms
and data-driven dialog models to support long-term human-robot interactions. However, little …

Engagement estimation plays a crucial role in understanding human social behaviors,
attracting increasing research interests in fields such as affective computing and human …

In a multi-person face-to-face dialogue, people naturally gaze towards others or avert their
gazes, according to their dialogue roles and mental states. The goal of this research is to …

Backchanneling models, designed to enhance the interactive capabilities of robots, have
primarily been trained on human-human interaction data. However, applying such data …