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Adjustment of Nonverbal Conversational Signals from Embodied Agents in Dialogues

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2003)

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In this article, we discuss how to control nonverbal conversational signals (NCS) including eye gazes, noddings and facial expressions displayed by a pair of embodied agents that present various information to their users through their dialogues. NCS convey various kinds of information that is essential to make our face-to-face communication successful. In the previous work on social psychology, it is known that there are interdependences among NCS with different modalities and between those from different persons in conversation with each other. In order to apply this knowledge to the dialogues between embodied agents for information presentation, we propose a procedure to adjust NCS displayed by the agents so that the interdependences among the NCS are properly maintained.

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Junko Itou

  2. Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Koh Kakusho & Michihiko Minoh

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  1. Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Parks Road, OXI 3QD, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Vasile Palade

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia

    Lakhmi Jain

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Itou, J., Kakusho, K., Minoh, M. (2003). Adjustment of Nonverbal Conversational Signals from Embodied Agents in Dialogues. In: Palade, V., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45226-3_148

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