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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We present an approach to enhance the interaction abilities of the Nao humanoid robot by
extending its communicative behavior with non-verbal gestures (hand and head …

Cooperative gestures are a key aspect of humanhuman pro-social interaction. Thus, it is
reasonable to expect that endowing humanoid robots with the ability to use such gestures …

Identifying the extent to which the appearance of a humanoid robot affects human behavior
toward it is important. We compared participant impressions of and behaviors toward two …

Gestures support and enrich speech across various forms of communication. Effective use of
gestures by speakers improves not only the listeners' comprehension of the spoken material …

It is expected that in the near-future people will have daily natural language interactions with
robots. However, we know very little about how users feel they should talk to robots …

Since a talking robot cannot escape from errors in recognizing user's speech in daily
environment, its verbal responses are sometimes felt as incoherent with the context of …