Gestures support and enrich speech across various forms of communication. Effective use of
gestures by speakers improves not only the listeners' comprehension of the spoken material …

During conversations, speakers employ a number of verbal and nonverbal mechanisms to
establish who participates in the conversation, when, and in what capacity. Gaze cues and …

Gesture is an important feature of social interaction, frequently used by human speakers to
illustrate what speech alone cannot provide, eg to convey referential, spatial or iconic …

If human-robot interaction is mainly shaped by users' strategies to deal with their unfamiliar
artificial com¬ munication partner, as it is suggested here, robot dialog design should orient …

Communication between socially assistive robots and humans might be facilitated by
intuitively understandable mechanisms. To investigate the effects of some key nonverbal …

Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency
and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal …

As research over the last several decades has shown that non-verbal actions such as face
and head movement play a crucial role in human interaction, such resources are also likely …

Abstract Service robots are starting to become part of work life in many sectors including
shopping, education, and companion. Previous studies in HRI have found that a number of …

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a peripheral empathy-evoking
robotic conversation companion, Kip1. The robot's function is to increase people's …

During conversations, speakers establish their and others' participant roles (who participates
in the conversation and in what capacity)--or" footing" as termed by Goffman-using gaze …