What does it feel like to own, to control, and to be inside a body? The multidimensional
nature of this experience together with the continuous presence of one's biological body …

In this paper, we argue that embodiment can play an important role in the design and
modeling of systems developed for Human Computer Interaction. To this end, we describe a …

Visual, behavioral and verbal cues for gender are often used in designing virtual agents to
take advantage of their stereotypical effects on the users. However, recent studies point …

Based on cross-disciplinary approaches to Embodied Conversational Agents, evaluation
methods for such human-computer interfaces are structured and presented. An introductory …

In this paper, we propose a data-oriented method for inferring the emotion of a speaker
conversing with a dialog system from the semantic content of an utterance. We first fully …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seen as an extension of human intelligence and has taken over
various sectors. Application of Artificial Intelligence in libraries has been providing a …

Purpose–Conversational agents are natural language interaction interfaces designed to
simulate conversation with a real person. This paper seeks to investigate current …

This paper presents Gesture AMR, an extension to Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR),
that captures the meaning of gesture. In developing Gesture AMR, we consider how gesture …

Speech alignment is where talkers subconsciously adopt the speech and language patterns
of their interlocutor. Nowadays, people of all ages are speaking with voice-activated …

The rise of digitalization and computing devices has transformed the educational landscape,
making traditional teaching methods less productive. In this context, early and continuous …