… verbal and non-verbal ECA behaviours. Most of the current systems with ECAs distinguish
between an ECA’s embodiment … oriented view and associate embodiment with an animation …

… of early comparisons of embodied conversational agents to an embodied interface without
… uttering identical words, but without nonverbal interactional behaviors, we found that users …

… Interactive virtual and robotic agents have … to interact with realistic but carefully controlled
partners. But as researchers increasingly turn to machine learning to add realism to such agents…

This article presents the design and the implementation of a cloud system for knowledge-based
autonomous interaction devised for Social Robots and other conversational agents. The …

… ducted a second set of experiments using the interactions selected in the prestudy. In three
separate experiments, one for each embodiment, we performed evaluations of the videos of …

… , we focus on non-verbal facial cues for faceto-face communication between a user and an
embodied agent. We propose a method that automatically learns to update the agent’s facial …

… the details of how an embodied conversational agent can be … to REA, an embodied
conversational agent whose verbal and … REA is the most extensive embodied conversational …

… Embodied agents are capable of engaging in face-to-face interaction with humans through
both verbal and non-verbal behavior. … However, even if an embodied agent is endowed with …

… task-oriented dialogues has focused on verbal interactions, an animated agent that cohabits
the virtual world with students permits other types of interactions that play important roles in …

… Particularly, the ECA and the human user are embodied agents. We formalized, in the
interface model, the basic actions that an embodied agent is able to perform: (1) Communication …