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Generating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2007)

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We describe two user studies designed to measure the impact of using the characteristic displays of a speaker expressing different user-preference evaluations to select the head and eye behaviour of an animated talking head. In the first study, human judges were reliably able to identify positive and negative evaluations based only on the motions of the talking head. In the second study, subjects generally preferred positive displays to accompany positive sentences and negative displays to accompany negative ones, and showed a particular dislike for negative facial displays accompanying positive sentences.

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  1. Informatik VI: Echtzeitsysteme und Robotik, Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany

    Mary Ellen Foster

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Catherine Pelachaud Jean-Claude Martin Elisabeth André Gérard Chollet Kostas Karpouzis Danielle Pelé

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Foster, M.E. (2007). Generating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences. In: Pelachaud, C., Martin, JC., André, E., Chollet, G., Karpouzis, K., Pelé, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_24

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