A taxonomy of social cues for conversational agents

J Feine, U Gnewuch, S Morana, A Maedche - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Conversational agents (CAs) are software-based systems designed to interact with humans
using natural language and have attracted considerable research interest in recent years …

[HTML][HTML] Design features of embodied conversational agents in ehealth: a literature review

S Ter Stal, LL Kramer, M Tabak, H op den Akker… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are gaining interest to elicit user engagement and
stimulate actual use of eHealth applications. In this literature review, we identify the …

You complete me: Human-ai teams and complementary expertise

Q Zhang, ML Lee, S Carter - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
People consider recommendations from AI systems in diverse domains ranging from
recognizing tumors in medical images to deciding which shoes look cute with an outfit …

Affective body expression perception and recognition: A survey

A Kleinsmith… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the decreasing cost of whole-body sensing technology and its increasing
reliability, there is an increasing interest in, and understanding of, the role played by body …

Introducing the Geneva Multimodal expression corpus for experimental research on emotion perception.

T Bänziger, M Mortillaro, KR Scherer - Emotion, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Research on the perception of emotional expressions in faces and voices is exploding in
psychology, the neurosciences, and affective computing. This article provides an overview of …

Style transfer for co-speech gesture animation: A multi-speaker conditional-mixture approach

C Ahuja, DW Lee, YI Nakano, LP Morency - Computer Vision–ECCV 2020 …, 2020 - Springer
How can we teach robots or virtual assistants to gesture naturally? Can we go further and
adapt the gesturing style to follow a specific speaker? Gestures that are naturally timed with …

Examining the use of nonverbal communication in virtual agents

I Wang, J Ruiz - International Journal of Human–Computer …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

No gestures left behind: Learning relationships between spoken language and freeform gestures

C Ahuja, DW Lee, R Ishii… - Findings of the Association …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
We study relationships between spoken language and co-speech gestures in context of two
key challenges. First, distributions of text and gestures are inherently skewed making it …

Low-resource adaptation for personalized co-speech gesture generation

C Ahuja, DW Lee, LP Morency - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Personalizing an avatar for co-speech gesture generation from spoken language requires
learning the idiosyncrasies of a person's gesture style from a small amount of data. Previous …

Dataflow query execution in a parallel main-memory environment

AN Wilschut, PMG Apers - Distributed and Parallel Databases, 1993 - Springer
In this paper, the performance and characteristics of the execution of various join-trees on a
parallel DBMS are studied. The results of this study are a step into the direction of the design …