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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Robots are increasingly used in shared environments with humans, making effective
communication a necessity for successful human-robot interaction. In our work, we study a …

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

Humans use gestures as a means of non-verbal communication. Often accompanying
speech, these gestures have several purposes but in general, aim to convey an intended …

Social interactive robots require sophisticated perception and cognition abilities to behave
and interact in a natural human-like way. The proper perception of behavior of interaction …