Humans detect and interpret faces and facial expressions in a scene with little or no effort.
Still, development of an automated system that accomplishes this task is rather difficult …

Two channels have been distinguished in human interaction: one transmits explicit
messages, which may be about anything or nothing; the other transmits implicit messages …

The impact of public narratives has been so broad (including effects on beliefs and behavior
but extending beyond to emotion and personality), that the stakeholders in the process have …

This paper discusses our expert system called Integrated System for Facial Expression
Recognition (ISFER), which performs recognition and emotional classification of human …

This paper explores the use of multisensory information fusion technique with dynamic
Bayesian networks (DBN) for modeling and understanding the temporal behaviors of facial …

Virtual reality (VR) has myriad applications to psychotherapy training and has manifold
adjunctive or primary applications to psychotherapeutic treatments. Unfortunately, VR …

Research in computational linguistics, computer graphics and autonomous agents has led
to the development of increasingly sophisticated communicative agents over the past few …

The original narrative medium was the body and the spoken word. The body and the word
were used to simulate narrative worlds: physical spaces, social interactions, and mental …

This paper presents three experiments designed to empirically evaluate humanoid synthetic
agents in electronic retail applications. First, human-like agents were evaluated in a single e …

Imagine you start a conversation with the newest socially interactive agent (SIA), a
humanoid robot or life-size embodied virtual agent. It talks to you and you talk back, but the …