6 papers
Known-Voice Cloning and the Limits of Personality Transfer for Character Design
Johanna Magdalena Kuch, Maud van Lier, Daksitha Senel Withanage Don +3
Recent advances in zero-shot voice cloning systems make it possible to reproduce a recognizable voice from a short recording and attach it to arbitrary virtual characters. Prior wo…
Socially Interactive Agents for Preserving and Transferring Tacit Knowledge in Organizations
Martin Benderoth, Patrick Gebhard, Christian Keller +3
This paper introduces a novel approach to tackle the challenges of preserving and transferring tacit knowledge--deep, experience-based insights that are hard to articulate but vita…
Recognizing Emotion Regulation Strategies from Human Behavior with Large Language Models
Philipp Müller, Alexander Heimerl, Sayed Muddashir Hossain +5
Human emotions are often not expressed directly, but regulated according to internal processes and social display rules. For affective computing systems, an understanding of how us…
"GAN I hire you?" -- A System for Personalized Virtual Job Interview Training
Alexander Heimerl, Silvan Mertes, Tanja Schneeberger +6
Job interviews are usually high-stakes social situations where professional and behavioral skills are required for a satisfactory outcome. Professional job interview trainers give…
EMMI: Empathic Human-Machine Interaction for Establishing Trust in Automated Driving
Tobias Oetermann, Pia Dautzenberg, Gudrun Voß +10
Highly automated vehicles represent one of the most crucial development efforts in the automotive industry. In addition to the use of research vehicles, production vehicles for the…
Designing a Mobile Social and Vocational Reintegration Assistant for Burn-out Outpatient Treatment
Patrick Gebhard, Tanja Schneeberger, Michael Dietz +2
Using Social Agents as health-care assistants or trainers is one focus area of IVA research. While their use as physical health-care agents is well established, their employment in…