Recent studies suggest that human interaction experience with virtual agents can be, to a very large degree, described by people’s personality traits. Moreover, the nonverbal behavior of a person has been known to indicate several social constructs in different settings. In this study, we analyze human-agent interaction from the perspective of the personality of the human and the nonverbal beha...

AIM To characterise the relationship between preschool lexical delay and language comprehension and nonverbal intelligence at school age. METHODS The mothers of 2724 children completed the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory when their child reached 1.5 years and the Language Development Survey and the Parent Report of Children's Ability at 2.5 years. When the children were 6 years ...

Recent studies suggest that people’s interaction experience with virtual agents can be, to a very large degree, described by people’s personality traits. Moreover, the nonverbal behavior of a person has been known to indicate several social constructs in different settings. In this study we analyze human-agent interaction from the perspective of nonverbal behaviors displayed during the interact...

Derivations from nonverbal communications accommodation theory are tested, and this knowledge is extended both theoretically and methodologically. Fast fourier transform and statistical analysis of a low-frequency nonverbal signal-in voices from 25 dyadic interviews between a talk show host and his guests revealed voice convergence between partners. Correlation coefficients from comparisons of ...

This paper describes our research on speech interfaces using nonverbal speech information. Although speech information consists of verbal and nonverbal information, most speechrecognition research has made use of only verbal information such as words and sentences. From among nonverbal information, we have focused on hesitation (filled pause) and prosody (voice pitch) to create four speech-inte...