Studies on gesture expressivity for a virtual agent

نویسنده

  • Catherine Pelachaud
چکیده

Our aim is to create an affective Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA); that is an ECA able to display communicative and emotional signals. Nonverbal communication is done through certain facial expressions, gesture shapes, gaze direction, etc. But it can also carry a qualitative aspect through behavior expressivity: how a facial expression, a gesture is executed. In this paper we describe some of the work we have conducted on behavior expressivity, more particularly on gesture expressivity. We have developed a model of behavior expressivity using a set of six parameters that act as modulation of behavior animation. Expressivity may act at different levels of the behavior: on a particular phase of the behavior, on the whole behavior and on a sequence of behaviors. When applied at these different levels, expressivity may convey different functions. keywords: Nonverbal behavior, Embodied Conversational Agents, Expressivity

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Speech Communication

دوره 51  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009