4 papers
How Neurotypical and Autistic Children Interact Nonverbally with Anthropomorphic Agents in Open-Ended Tasks
Chuxuan Zhang, Bermet Burkanova, Lawrence H. Kim +3
What nonverbal behaviors should a robot respond to? Understanding how children-both neurotypical and autistic-engage with embodied artificial agents is critical for developing incl…
EmojiVoice: Towards long-term controllable expressivity in robot speech
Paige Tuttösí, Shivam Mehta, Zachary Syvenky +3
Humans vary their expressivity when speaking for extended periods to maintain engagement with their listener. Although social robots tend to be deployed with ``expressive'' joyful…
CoMPAS3D: A Dataset and Benchmark for Interactive Motion
Bermet Burkanova, Yasaman Etesam, Payam Jome Yazdian +5
Socially interactive humanoid robots must engage with humans through their bodies, adapting in real time to a partner's movement, intent, and abilities. This requires models that u…
React to This! How Humans Challenge Interactive Agents using Nonverbal Behaviors
Chuxuan Zhang, Bermet Burkanova, Lawrence H. Kim +4
How do people use their faces and bodies to test the interactive abilities of a robot? Making lively, believable agents is often seen as a goal for robots and virtual agents but be…