Value co-creation in smart services: a functional affordances perspective on smart personal assistants

R Knote, A Janson, M Söllner… - Journal of the Association …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
In the realm of smart services, smart personal assistants (SPAs) have become a popular
medium for value co-creation between service providers and users. The market success of …

A study on the deployment of a service robot in an elderly care center

D Portugal, P Alvito, E Christodoulou… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
In this article, we address the implementation and deployment of a service robot platform for
interaction with the elderly in the context of a collaborative European initiative. Specifically …

Investigating how speech and animation realism influence the perceived personality of virtual characters and agents

S Thomas, Y Ferstl, R McDonnell… - 2022 IEEE Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The portrayed personality of virtual characters and agents is understood to influence how we
perceive and engage with digital applications. Understanding how the features of speech …

Facexhubert: Text-less speech-driven e (x) pressive 3d facial animation synthesis using self-supervised speech representation learning

KI Haque, Z Yumak - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents FaceXHuBERT, a text-less speech-driven 3D facial animation
generation method that generates facial cues driven by an emotional expressiveness …

[PDF][PDF] Dialogue systems and dialogue management

D Burgan - DST group Edinburgh Edinburgh SA Australia, 2016 - dst.defence.gov.au
ABSTRACT A spoken dialogue system (SDS) is a specialised form of computer system that
operates as an interface between users and the application, using spoken natural language …

On the development of a service robot for social interaction with the elderly

D Portugal, P Trindade, E Christodoulou, G Samaras… - 2015 - IET
In this paper, we address the development of an innovative service mobile robot for social
interaction and home care. Specifically, we focus on the integration of a set of intelligent …

A virtual clown behavior model based on emotional biologically inspired cognitive architecture

AV Samsonovich, AD Dodonov, MD Klychkov… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - Springer
A cognitive model of the virtual clownery paradigm is developed, in which two clowns
perform on a virtual stage, interacting with each other. Agents controlling virtual clown …

[PDF][PDF] Immersive networking-a framework for virtual environments with augmented reality in human decision-making

T Kanter, U Fors, R Rahmani - International Journal of Multimedia and …, 2016 - gvpress.com
In this publication we present Immersive Networking as a novel framework for connecting
people and places and things in virtual environments with augmented reality to be used in …

Believe in the Sound You See: The Effects of Body Type and Voice Pitch on the Perceived Audio-Visual Correspondence and Believability of Virtual Characters

L Lam - 2023 - hammer.purdue.edu
Lam, Luchcha. MS, Purdue University, May 2023. Believe in the Sound You See: The Effects
of Body Type and Voice Pitch on the Perceived Audio-Visual Correspondence and …

[PDF][PDF] A Multimodal Approach for Identification, Analysis, and Comparison of Human Emotional and Behavioral Patterns between Human-Human and Human …

E Baka - access.archive-ouverte.unige.ch
Our everyday life includes more than one social interaction, which are based mainly on
human communication. The latter consists of human emotional and behavioral informations …