2 papers
cs.AI2026
LLM-Based Selection of Incongruent Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior for Virtual Humans
Parisa Ghanad Torshizi, Stacy Marsella
Nonverbal behavior generation systems for virtual agents often take an utterance as input and generate nonverbal behaviors that emphasize or illustrate the content of the verbal ch…
cs.HC2025
Large Language Models for Virtual Human Gesture Selection
Parisa Ghanad Torshizi, Laura B. Hensel, Ari Shapiro +1
Co-speech gestures convey a wide variety of meanings and play an important role in face-to-face human interactions. These gestures significantly influence the addressee's engagemen…