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This paper presents an investigation of mirroring facial expressions and the emotions which
they convey in dyadic naturally occurring first encounters. Mirroring facial expressions are a …

This article presents the Danish NOMCO Corpus, an annotated multimodal collection of
video-recorded first acquaintance conversations between Danish speakers. The annotation …

The paper compares how feedback is expressed via speech and head movements in
comparable corpora of first encounters in three Nordic languages: Danish, Finnish and …

Fillers, alone or accompanied by pauses and/or gestures, are quite frequent in all types of
spoken communication. They have numerous and non-exclusive functions which are related …

Head nods have been shown to play an important role for communication management in
human communication, eg as a non-verbal feedback signal from the listener. Based on a …

This paper is about the automatic annotation of head movements in videos of face-to-face
conversations. Manual annotation of gestures is resource consuming, and modelling …

This paper describes a pilot study of gestures which are connected to anaphoric
expressions and to their antecedents in videorecordings of spontaneous two-and three party …

Overlapping speech and gestures are common in face-to-face conversations and have been
interpreted as a sign of synchronization between conversation participants. A number of …

In order to build artificial conversational interfaces that display behaviors that are credible
and expressive, we should endow them with the capability to recognize, adapt to, and …