Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient embodied
human communication. The automatic generation of such co‐speech gestures is a long …

Mental models are knowledge structures employed by humans to describe, explain, and
predict the world around them. Shared Mental Models (SMMs) occur in teams whose …

Diffusion models have experienced a surge of interest as highly expressive yet efficiently
trainable probabilistic models. We show that these models are an excellent fit for …

Chatbots are increasingly becoming important gateways to digital services and information—
taken up within domains such as customer service, health, education, and work support …

Generating speech-consistent body and gesture movements is a long-standing problem in
virtual avatar creation. Previous studies often synthesize pose movement in a holistic …

As robots become more prevalent in society, investigating the interactions between humans
and robots is important to ensure that these robots adhere to the social norms and …

Gestures and speech interact. They are linked in language production and perception, with
their interaction contributing to felicitous communication. The multifaceted nature of these …

Previous work has shown that non-verbal behaviors affect anthropomorphic inferences
about artificial communicators such as virtual agents or social robots. In an experiment with …

Everyone agrees that joint attention is a key feature of human social cognition. Yet, despite
over 40 years of work and hundreds of publications on this topic, there is still surprisingly …

Large-language models (LLMs) hold significant promise in improving human-robot
interaction, offering advanced conversational skills and versatility in managing diverse, open …