3 papers
cs.RO2025
The Space Between Us: A Methodological Framework for Researching Bonding and Proxemics in Situated Group-Agent Interactions
Ana Müller, Anja Richert
This paper introduces a multimethod framework for studying spatial and social dynamics in real-world group-agent interactions with socially interactive agents. Drawing on proxemics…
cs.RO2025
Are We Generalizing from the Exception? An In-the-Wild Study on Group-Sensitive Conversation Design in Human-Agent Interactions
Ana Müller, Sabina Jeschke, Anja Richert
This paper investigates the impact of a group-adaptive conversation design in two socially interactive agents (SIAs) through two real-world studies. Both SIAs - Furhat, a social ro…
cs.HC2025
Human-like Nonverbal Behavior with MetaHumans in Real-World Interaction Studies: An Architecture Using Generative Methods and Motion Capture
Oliver Chojnowski, Alexander Eberhard, Michael Schiffmann +2
Socially interactive agents are gaining prominence in domains like healthcare, education, and service contexts, particularly virtual agents due to their inherent scalability. To fa…