4 papers
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…
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…
Large language models in textual analysis for gesture selection
Laura B. Hensel, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Parisa Torshizi +2
Gestures perform a variety of communicative functions that powerfully influence human face-to-face interaction. How this communicative function is achieved varies greatly between i…
Investigating Large Language Models' Perception of Emotion Using Appraisal Theory
Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Parisa Ghanad Torshizi, Stacy Marsella
Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT have significantly advanced in recent years and are now being used by the general public. As more people interact with these systems, impro…