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Embodied Conversational Agents have been widely used to simulate dyadic interactions with users. We want to explore the context of expression of interpersonal attitudes in simulated group conversations. We are presenting a model that allows agents to exhibit a variety of nonverbal behaviors (e.g gestures, facial expressions, proxemics) depending on the interpersonal attitudes that they want to express within a group while talking. The model combines corpus-based and theoretical-based approaches and we present a preliminary implementation of this model.
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Ravenet, B., Cafaro, A., Ochs, M., Pelachaud, C. (2014). Interpersonal Attitude of a Speaking Agent in Simulated Group Conversations. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_45
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