Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are increasingly used in healthcare and other
settings to improve self-management and provide companionship. Their ability to form close …

Background Due to growing pressure on the health care system, a shift in rehabilitation to
home settings is essential. However, efficient support for home-based rehabilitation is …

Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only
natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …

Background In the last few years, several studies have focused on describing and
understanding how virtual coaches (ie, coaching program or smart device aiming to provide …

Research in the field of social robotics suggests that enhancing social cues in robots can
elicit more social responses in users. It is however not clear how users respond socially to …

Although used in many domains, the evaluation of personas is difficult due to the lack of
validated measurement instruments. To tackle this challenge, we propose the Persona …

Synchronization of behavior such as gestures or postures is assumed to serve crucial
functions in social interaction but has been poorly studied to date in schizophrenia. Using a …

Advances in artificial intelligence and in particular machine learning and neural networks
have given rise to a new generation of virtual assistants and chatbots. Within this work, we …

Despite the potential of meta-humans in the virtual space, research on how consumers react
to meta-humans is scarce. This study investigates the effects of meta-human characteristics …

Laughter and gaze have an important role in managing and coordi-nating social
interactions. In the current work, using a multimodal corpus of dyadic taste-testing …