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Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems

ADS 2004: Affective Dialogue Systems pp 319–322Cite as

Gesture Synthesis in a Real-World ECA

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We address the issue of spontaneous gesture synthesis for embodied conversation agents (ECAs), that is, the generation of appropriate gestures and their coordination with spoken utterances. After a characterization of the application constraints we establish the principal requirements of the gesture generation framework. We demonstrate how these requirements can be met by formulating the gesture generation as real-time search through gesture space (actually gesture and facial expression) under the constraints arising from the graphical model of the character and the linguistic properties of the utterance.

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  1. Lexicle, Innovation Centre, York Science Park, York, YO10 5DG, UK

    Patrick Olivier

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  1. University of Augsburg, Germany

    Elisabeth André

  2. Prolog Development Center A/S (PDC), Brøndby, Denmark

    Laila Dybkjær

  3. Department of Information Technology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Wolfgang Minker

  4. DaimlerChrysler AG, Dialog Systems, 89081, Ulm, Germany

    Paul Heisterkamp

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Olivier, P. (2004). Gesture Synthesis in a Real-World ECA. In: André, E., Dybkjær, L., Minker, W., Heisterkamp, P. (eds) Affective Dialogue Systems. ADS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24842-2_35

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