TY - GEN
T1 - Multimodal Embodied Mimicry in Interaction
AU - Sun, X.
PY - 2011/11/28
Y1 - 2011/11/28
N2 - Nonverbal behaviors play an important role in communicating with others. One particular kind of nonverbal interaction behavior is mimicry. It has been argued that behavioral mimicry supports harmonious relationships in social interaction through creating affiliation, rapport, and liking between interaction partners. Affective computing that also employs knowledge about mimicry behavior and is able to predict how mimicry affects social situations and relations can find immediate applications in human-human and in human-computer interaction to improve interaction. In this short survey we look at various aspects of mimicry from the point of view of automatic analysis and automatic generation. This latter issue needs to be considered when we add mimicry behavior to embodied conversational agents. Experiments in which we record face-to-face interactions in order to obtain a corpus of mimicry behavior are in progress.
AB - Nonverbal behaviors play an important role in communicating with others. One particular kind of nonverbal interaction behavior is mimicry. It has been argued that behavioral mimicry supports harmonious relationships in social interaction through creating affiliation, rapport, and liking between interaction partners. Affective computing that also employs knowledge about mimicry behavior and is able to predict how mimicry affects social situations and relations can find immediate applications in human-human and in human-computer interaction to improve interaction. In this short survey we look at various aspects of mimicry from the point of view of automatic analysis and automatic generation. This latter issue needs to be considered when we add mimicry behavior to embodied conversational agents. Experiments in which we record face-to-face interactions in order to obtain a corpus of mimicry behavior are in progress.
KW - Affective computing
KW - Embodied conversational agents
KW - HMI-MI: MULTIMODAL INTERACTIONS
KW - Interactional synchrony
KW - EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/231287
KW - Mimicry
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_14
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-642-25774-2
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 147
EP - 153
BT - International Conference on Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issues
A2 - Esposito, Anna
A2 - Vinciarelli, Alessandro
A2 - Vicsi, Klára
A2 - Pelachaud, Catherine
A2 - Nijholt, Antinus
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - International Conference on Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issues
Y2 - 7 September 2011 through 10 September 2011
ER -