Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are often designed to produce nonverbal behavior
to complement or enhance their verbal communication. One such form of the nonverbal …

Co-speech gestures, gestures that accompany speech, play an important role in human
communication. Automatic co-speech gesture generation is thus a key enabling technology …

This article reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-
speech gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset …

While automatic performance metrics are crucial for machine learning of artificial human-like
behaviour, the gold standard for evaluation remains human judgement. The subjective …

The development of data-driven behaviour generating systems has recently become the
focus of considerable attention in the fields of human–agent interaction and human–robot …

Natural gestures are a desirable feature for a humanoid robot, as they are presumed to elicit
a more comfortable interaction in people. With this aim in mind, we present in this paper a …

Social robot capabilities, such as talking gestures, are best produced using data driven
approaches to avoid being repetitive and to show trustworthiness. However, there is a lack …

Automatic gesture generation is a field of growing interest, and a key technology for
enabling embodied conversational agents. Research into gesture generation is rapidly …

Gestures convey critical information within social interactions. As such, the success of virtual
agents (VA) in both building social relationships and achieving their goals is heavily …

Non-verbal communication that encompasses emotional body language is a crucial aspect
of social robotics applications. Deep learning models for the generation of robotic …