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Incorporating Spatial Awareness in Data-Driven Gesture Generation for Virtual Agents
Anna Deichler, Simon Alexanderson, Jonas Beskow
This paper focuses on enhancing human-agent communication by integrating spatial context into virtual agents' non-verbal behaviors, specifically gestures. Recent advances in co-spe…
Fake it to make it: Using synthetic data to remedy the data shortage in joint multimodal speech-and-gesture synthesis
Shivam Mehta, Anna Deichler, Jim O'Regan +4
Although humans engaged in face-to-face conversation simultaneously communicate both verbally and non-verbally, methods for joint and unified synthesis of speech audio and co-speec…
Integrated Speech and Gesture Synthesis
Siyang Wang, Simon Alexanderson, Joakim Gustafson +3
Text-to-speech and co-speech gesture synthesis have until now been treated as separate areas by two different research communities, and applications merely stack the two technologi…
Can we trust online crowdworkers? Comparing online and offline participants in a preference test of virtual agents
Patrik Jonell, Taras Kucherenko, Ilaria Torre +1
Conducting user studies is a crucial component in many scientific fields. While some studies require participants to be physically present, other studies can be conducted both phys…
The effect of a physical robot on vocabulary learning
Andreas Wedenborn, Preben Wik, Olov Engwall +1
This study investigates the effect of a physical robot taking the role of a teacher or exercise partner in a language learning exercise. In order to investigate this, an applicatio…
Machine Learning and Social Robotics for Detecting Early Signs of Dementia
Patrik Jonell, Joseph Mendelson, Thomas Storskog +12
This paper presents the EACare project, an ambitious multi-disciplinary collaboration with the aim to develop an embodied system, capable of carrying out neuropsychological tests t…