[HTML][HTML] Turn-taking in conversational systems and human-robot interaction: a review

G Skantze - Computer Speech & Language, 2021 - Elsevier
The taking of turns is a fundamental aspect of dialogue. Since it is difficult to speak and listen
at the same time, the participants need to coordinate who is currently speaking and when …

A review of eye gaze in virtual agents, social robotics and hci: Behaviour generation, user interaction and perception

K Ruhland, CE Peters, S Andrist… - Computer graphics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Turn-taking, feedback and joint attention in situated human–robot interaction

G Skantze, A Hjalmarsson, C Oertel - Speech Communication, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a study where a robot instructs a human on how to draw a route on
a map. The human and robot are seated face-to-face with the map placed on the table …

Look me in the eyes: A survey of eye and gaze animation for virtual agents and artificial systems

K Ruhland, S Andrist, J Badler, C Peters… - … 2014-State of the Art …, 2014 - inria.hal.science
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 …

Learning backchanneling behaviors for a social robot via data augmentation from human-human conversations

M Murray, N Walker, A Nanavati… - … on robot learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Backchanneling behaviors on a robot, such as nodding, can make talking to a robot feel
more natural and engaging by giving a sense that the robot is actively listening. For …

Modeling feedback in interaction with conversational agents—a review

A Axelsson, H Buschmeier, G Skantze - Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

Training socially engaging robots: Modeling backchannel behaviors with batch reinforcement learning

N Hussain, E Erzin, TM Sezgin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key aspect of social human-robot interaction is natural non-verbal communication. In this
work, we train an agent with batch reinforcement learning to generate nods and smiles as …

Computational models of miscommunication phenomena

M Purver, J Hough, C Howes - Topics in cognitive science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Miscommunication phenomena such as repair in dialogue are important indicators of the
quality of communication. Automatic detection is therefore a key step toward tools that can …

Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically

S Wehrle, K Vogeley, M Grice - Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
Backchannels (BCs; listener signals such as 'mmhm'or 'okay') are a ubiquitous and essential
feature of spoken interaction. They are used by listeners predominantly to support the …

Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic

P Blomsma, J Vaitonyté, G Skantze… - Language and …, 2024 - cambridge.org
In spoken conversations, speakers and their addressees constantly seek and provide
different forms of audiovisual feedback, also known as backchannels, which include …