Studies conducted during the pandemic revealed strong associations between gender and
COVID-19 related fear and anxiety. Females perceive coronavirus as a greater threat to …

In recent years, there has been an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders connected
with affective dysregulation and insecure attachment. Therefore, it is even more important to …

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students and professionals build their knowledge and competencies for effective …

This step-by-step introduction to conducting media and communication research offers
practical insights along with Arthur Asa Berger's signature lighthearted style to make …

Established as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen
Hargie's Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the …

This paper presents a novel framework for automatic speech-driven gesture generation,
applicable to human-agent interaction including both virtual agents and robots. Specifically …

We present a generative adversarial network to synthesize 3D pose sequences of co-
speech upper-body gestures with appropriate affective expressions. Our network consists of …

Basic emotions theory (BET) is the most popular and deeply rooted psychological theory of
both emotion and the facial behavior held to express it. We review its Western foundations …

Body movements communicate affective expressions and, in recent years, computational
models have been developed to recognize affective expressions from body movements or to …

We present Text2Gestures, a transformer-based learning method to interactively generate
emotive full-body gestures for virtual agents aligned with natural language text inputs. Our …