Co-verbal gestures, the spontaneous gestures that accompany human speech, form an
integral part of human communications; they have been shown to have a variety of …

Gesture is an important feature of social interaction, frequently used by human speakers to
illustrate what speech alone cannot provide, eg to convey referential, spatial or iconic …

This article presents results obtained from an experiment on our expressive gesture model
for humanoid robots. The work took place within a French research project, GVLEX. The …

Non-verbal, or visual, communication is an important factor of daily human-to-human
interaction. Gestures make up one mode of visual communication, where movement of the …

The human sciences have demonstrated that gesture is a critical element of human
communication. While existing graphical solutions are appropriate for virtual agents, solving …

Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency
and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal …

Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency
for information conveyance. A key component of such improvement is the observer's ability …

Towards establishing future-oriented relations between humans and robots, not only verbal,
but also nonverbal robot functions have been studied. However, it is not clear how these …

How is communicative gesture behavior in robots perceived by humans? Although gesture
is crucial in social interaction, this research question is still largely unexplored in the field of …

This paper investigates the influence of feedback provided by an autonomous robot (BIRON)
on users' discursive behavior. A user study is described during which users show objects to …