Over the past few years we have been developing an expressive embodied conversational
agent system. In particular, we have developed a model of multimodal behaviours that …

To investigate the perception of emotional facial expressions, researchers rely on shared
sets of photos or videos, most often generated by actor portrayals. The drawback of such …

The current work investigates issues of expressivity and personality traits for Embodied
Conversational Agents in environments that allow for dynamic interactions with human …

The aim of this paper is to describe some theoretical considerations about virtual character
design. In recent years, many prototypes of cognitive and behavioral architectures have …

In all computer-graphics applications, one stimulating task has been the integration of
believable virtual characters. Above all other features of a character, its face is arguably the …

As a universal element of human nature, the experience, expression, and perception of
emotions permeate our daily lives. Many emotions are thought to be basic and common to …

This paper covers the findings of a qualitative study of facial animation, in which a cohort of
student animators were tasked with producing spatiotemporally configured emotional …

El rostro es uno de los medios más importantes que existen para la comunicación no verbal,
a través de este, las personas suelen comunicarse por medio de expresiones que son …

Living in a computer era, the synergy between man and machine is a must, as the
computers are integrated into our everyday life. The computers are surrounding us but their …