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Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues
Annalena Bea Aicher, Yuki Matsuda, Keichii Yasumoto +3
Engaging in discussions that involve diverse perspectives and exchanging arguments on a controversial issue is a natural way for humans to form opinions. In this process, the way a…
VoiceX: A Text-To-Speech Framework for Custom Voices
Silvan Mertes, Daksitha Withanage Don, Otto Grothe +3
Modern TTS systems are capable of creating highly realistic and natural-sounding speech. Despite these developments, the process of customizing TTS voices remains a complex task, m…
DISCOVER: A Data-driven Interactive System for Comprehensive Observation, Visualization, and ExploRation of Human Behaviour
Dominik Schiller, Tobias Hallmen, Daksitha Withanage Don +2
Understanding human behavior is a fundamental goal of social sciences, yet its analysis presents significant challenges. Conventional methodologies employed for the study of behavi…
Socially Interactive Agents for Robotic Neurorehabilitation Training: Conceptualization and Proof-of-concept Study
Rhythm Arora, Pooja Prajod, Matteo Lavit Nicora +6
Individuals with diverse motor abilities often benefit from intensive and specialized rehabilitation therapies aimed at enhancing their functional recovery. Nevertheless, the chall…
The AffectToolbox: Affect Analysis for Everyone
Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Michael Dietz +2
In the field of affective computing, where research continually advances at a rapid pace, the demand for user-friendly tools has become increasingly apparent. In this paper, we pre…
ReNeLiB: Real-time Neural Listening Behavior Generation for Socially Interactive Agents
Daksitha Withanage Don, Philipp Müller, Fabrizio Nunnari +2
Flexible and natural nonverbal reactions to human behavior remain a challenge for socially interactive agents (SIAs) that are predominantly animated using hand-crafted rules. While…