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Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction
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Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction

by Matej Rojc, Nick Campbell
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
434 pages
14h 40m
English
CRC Press
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3.2 Multimodal signals
As described in Section 2.1.1, backchannels are provided not only
through the visual modality, but also through voice by uttering
paraverbals, words or short sentences (Gardner, 1998; Allwood et
al., 1993). For such a reason to create credible virtual agents, this
type of signals must be taken into account. Bevacqua et al. (2010)
proposed to improve user-agent interaction by introducing multimodal
signals in the backchannels performed by the ECA Greta. Moreover,
they presented a perceptual study with the aim of getting a better
understanding about how multimodal backchannels are interpreted
by users. Like in their previous ...
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