Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are often designed to produce nonverbal behavior
to complement or enhance their verbal communication. One such form of the nonverbal …

Generating speech-consistent body and gesture movements is a long-standing problem in
virtual avatar creation. Previous studies often synthesize pose movement in a holistic …

As robots become more prevalent in society, investigating the interactions between humans
and robots is important to ensure that these robots adhere to the social norms and …

This paper reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-
speech gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset …

Co-speech gestures, gestures that accompany speech, play an important role in human
communication. Automatic co-speech gesture generation is thus a key enabling technology …

Humanoid social robots have an increasingly prominent place in today's world. Their
acceptance in social and emotional human–robot interaction (HRI) scenarios depends on …

The growing use of virtual humans demands generating increasingly realistic behavior for
them while minimizing cost and time. Gestures are a key ingredient for realistic and …

Communication using manual (hand) gestures is considered a defining property of social
robots, and their physical embodiment and presence, therefore, we see a need for a …

During speech, people spontaneously gesticulate, which plays a key role in conveying
information. Similarly, realistic co-speech gestures are crucial to enable natural and smooth …

Communication between people is characterized by a broad range of nonverbal cues.
Transferring these cues into the design of robots and other artificial agents that interact with …