The challenge to develop an integrated perspective of embodiment in communication has been taken up by an international research group hosted by Bielefeld University's Center for Interdisciplinary ...Research (ZiF—Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung) from October, 2005 through September, 2006. An international conference was held there on 12‐15 January, 2005 to define a research agenda that will explicitly address embodied communication in humans and machines.
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Intelligent virtual objects gain more and more significance in the development of virtual worlds. Although this concept has high potential in generating all kinds of multimodal output, so far it is ...mostly used to enrich graphical properties. This paper proposes a framework, in which objects, enriched with information about their sound properties, are being processed to generate virtual sound sources. To create a sufficient surround sound experience not only single sounds but also environmental properties have to be considered. We introduce a concept, transferring features from the Phong lighting model to sound rendering.
Led by the fundamental role that rhythms apparently play in speech & gestural communication among humans, this study was undertaken to substantiate a biologically motivated model for synchronizing ...speech & gesture input in human computer interaction. The proposed approach presents a novel method which conceptualizes a multimodal user interface on the basis of timed agent systems. Multiple agents are used for polling presemantic information from different sensory channels (speech & hand gestures) & integrating them to multimodal data structures that can be processed by an application system, which is again based on agent systems. This article motivates & presents technical work which exploits rhythmic patterns in the development of biologically & cognitively motivated mediator systems between humans & machines. 6 Figures, 28 References. Adapted from the source document
A Computational Model of Empathy: Empirical Evaluation Boukricha, Hana; Wachsmuth, Ipke; Carminati, Maria Nella ...
2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction,
2013-Sept.
Conference Proceeding
Empathy can be defined as the ability to perceive and understand others' emotional states. Neuropsychological evidence has shown that humans empathize with each other to different degrees depending ...on factors such as their mood, personality, and social relationships. Although artificial agents have been endowed with features such as affect, personality, and the ability to build social relationships, little attention has been devoted to the role of such features as factors that can modulate their empathic behavior. In this paper, we present and discuss the results of an empirical evaluation of a computational model of empathy which allows a virtual human to exhibit different degrees of empathy. Our model is supported by psychological models of empathy and is applied and evaluated in the context of a conversational agent scenario.
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