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In this paper we propose an eye gaze model for an embodied conversational agent that embeds information on communicative functions as well as on statistical information of gaze patterns. This latter information has been derived from the analytic studies of an annotated video-corpus of conversation dyads. We aim at generating different gaze behaviors to stimulate several personalized gaze habits of an embodied conversational agent.
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Pelachaud, C., Bilvi, M. (2003). Modelling Gaze Behavior for Conversational Agents. In: Rist, T., Aylett, R.S., Ballin, D., Rickel, J. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39396-2_16
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