Research on Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is booming, which has led
to an emerging body of literature in their intersection. However, the main topics in this …

Taking turns in a conversation is a delicate interplay of various signals, which we as humans
can easily decipher. Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) communicating with humans …

Plausible conversations among characters are required to generate the ambiance of social
settings such as a restaurant, hotel lobby, or cocktail party. In this paper, we propose a …

More than a decade has passed since the development of FearNot!, an application
designed to help children deal with bullying through role-playing with virtual characters. It …

Interactions with embodied conversational agents can be enhanced using human‐like co‐
speech gestures. Traditionally, rule‐based co‐speech gesture mapping has been utilized for …

While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

While virtual reality (VR) technologies enable remote communication through the use of 3D
avatars, it is often difficult to foster engaging group discussions without addressing the …

This illuminating book offers an up-to-date introduction to the psychology of language,
exploring aspects of language processing that have previously not been given centre stage …

Creating believable virtual agents has long been the focus of artists and scientists. A
believable agent enables the audience to be emotionally involved in a narrative, willingly …

While audio-driven face and gesture motion synthesis has been studied before, to our
knowledge no research has been done yet for automatic generation of musical gestures for …