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Providing expressive eye movement to virtual agents

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Non-verbal behavior, particularly eye movement, plays a fundamental role in nonverbal communication among people. In order to realize natural and intuitive human-agent interaction, the virtual agents need to employ this communicative channel effectively. Against this background, our research addresses the problem of emotionally expressive eye movement manner by describing a preliminary approach based on the parameters picked from real-time eye movement data (pupil size, blink rate and saccade).

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      ICMI-MLMI '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces
      November 2009
      374 pages
      ISBN:9781605587721
      DOI:10.1145/1647314

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