This work explores the effect of chatbot personality on user experience and investigates how
users perceive agent personality when conveyed through text. Building on previous work in …

In this chapter, I cover computational modeling of emotion in socially interactive agents
(SIAs). I focus on the computational representation of emotion and other affective concepts …

In the social psychology literature, crowds are classified as audiences and mobs. Audiences
are passive crowds, whereas mobs are active crowds with emotional, irrational and …

Consistently exhibited personalities are crucial elements of realistic, engaging, and behavior-
rich conversational virtual agents. Both nonverbal and verbal cues help convey these …

Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) are natural extensions of cyber-physical systems that
add the consideration of human interactions and cooperation with cyber systems and …

A major goal of research on virtual humans is the animation of expressive characters that
display distinct psychological attributes. Body motion is an effective way of portraying …

This chapter addresses the bodily expression of emotion, specifically, how people
communicate emotion through body posture and gesture and how they make inferences …

This paper presents a vision of the near future in which computer interaction is characterized
by natural face-to-face conversations with lifelike characters that speak, emote, and gesture …

There is a general lack of awareness for the influence of users´ personality traits on human-
agent-interaction (HAI). Numerous studies do not even consider explanatory variables like …

This work investigates how personality expression and embodiment affect personality
perception and learning in educational conversational agents. We extend an existing …