Our daily human life is filled with a myriad of joint action moments, be it children playing,
adults working together (ie, team sports), or strangers navigating through a crowd. Joint …

Data-driven approaches for modeling human skeletal motion have found various
applications in interactive media and social robotics. Challenges remain in these fields for …

Politeness and embodiment are pivotal elements in human-agent interactions. While many
previous works advocate the positive role of embodiment in enhancing these interactions, it …

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 …

The analysis and simulation of the interactions that occur in group situations is important
when humans and artificial agents, physical or virtual, must coordinate when inhabiting …

Politeness behaviors could affect individuals' decisions heavily in their daily lives and may
therefore also play an important role in human-agent interactions. This study considers the …

Interaction group detection has been previously addressed with bottom-up approaches
which relied on the position and orientation information of individuals. These approaches …

Mobile robots that approach free-standing conversational groups to join them should
behave in a safe and socially-acceptable way. Existing trajectory generation methods focus …

We study two approaches for predicting an appropriate pose for a robot to take part in group
formations typical of social human conversations subject to the physical layout of the …

One of the main challenges robots need to overcome is crowd analysis. Crowd analysis
deals with the detection of individuals and interaction groups as well as the recognition of …