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"Warm Bodies": A Post-Processing Technique for Animating Dynamic Blood Flow on Photos and Avatars
Daniel McDuff, Ewa Nowara
What breathes life into an embodied agent or avatar? While body motions such as facial expressions, speech and gestures have been well studied, relatively little attention has been…
AffectiveSpotlight: Facilitating the Communication of Affective Responses from Audience Members during Online Presentations
Prasanth Murali, Javier Hernandez, Daniel McDuff +3
The ability to monitor audience reactions is critical when delivering presentations. However, current videoconferencing platforms offer limited solutions to support this. This work…
Designing Style Matching Conversational Agents
Deepali Aneja, Rens Hoegen, Daniel McDuff +1
Advances in machine intelligence have enabled conversational interfaces that have the potential to radically change the way humans interact with machines. However, even with the pr…
A High-Fidelity Open Embodied Avatar with Lip Syncing and Expression Capabilities
Deepali Aneja, Daniel McDuff, Shital Shah
Embodied avatars as virtual agents have many applications and provide benefits over disembodied agents, allowing non-verbal social and interactional cues to be leveraged, in a simi…
Towards Understanding Emotional Intelligence for Behavior Change Chatbots
Asma Ghandeharioun, Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski +1
A natural conversational interface that allows longitudinal symptom tracking would be extremely valuable in health/wellness applications. However, the task of designing emotionally…
An End-to-End Conversational Style Matching Agent
Rens Hoegen, Deepali Aneja, Daniel McDuff +1
We present an end-to-end voice-based conversational agent that is able to engage in naturalistic multi-turn dialogue and align with the interlocutor's conversational style. The sys…