This article reviews the state of the art in social eye gaze for human-robot interaction (HRI). It
establishes three categories of gaze research in HRI, defined by differences in goals and …

A person's emotions and state of mind are apparent in their face and eyes. As a Latin
proverb states:'The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers'. This presents a …

Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only
natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …

This paper describes the results of a research project aimed at implementing a 'realistic'3D
Embodied Agent that can be animated in real-time and is 'believable and expressive': that is …

Developing an embodied conversational agent able to exhibit a humanlike behavior while
communicating with other virtual or human agents requires enriching the dialogue of the …

Virtual Humans are becoming more and more popular and used in many applications such
as the entertainment industry (in both film and games) and medical applications. This …

In this paper we present our work toward the creation of a multimodal expressive Embodied
Conversational Agent (ECA). Our agent, called Greta, exhibits nonverbal behaviors …

Current methodologies in corpus linguistics have revolutionized the way we look at
language. They allow us to make objective observations about written and spoken …

A person's emotions and state of mind are apparent in their face and eyes. As a Latin
proverb states:" The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers.". This presents a …

One of the major problems of user's interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents
(ECAs) is to have the conversation last more than few second: after being amused and …