Social Attitudes

Expressing social attitudes in virtual agents for social training games

The use of virtual agents in social coaching has increased rapidly in the last decade. In order to train the user in different situations than can occur in real life, the virtual agent should be able to express different social attitudes. In this …

Investigating Non-Verbal Behaviors Conveying Interpersonal Stances

The study of the expression of affects and their expression by Embodied Conversational Agents is complex. This is because affects are expressed by non-verbal behaviors on a variety of different modalities, and that these behaviors are influenced by …

A multimodal corpus for the study of non-verbal behavior expressing interpersonal stances

Vers des agents conversationnels animés socio-affectifs

Dans cet article, nous proposons une architecture d'un Agent Conversationnel Animé (ACA) socio-affectif. Les différents modèles computationnels sous-jacents à cette architecture, permettant de donner la capacité à un ACA d’exprimer des …

Interpersonal stance recognition using non-verbal signals on several time windows

We present a computational model for interpreting nonverbal signals of a user during an interaction with a virtual character in order to obtain a representation of his interpersonal stance. Our model starts, on the one hand, from the analysis of …