One of the important factors in medical and nursing care recently has been arousing the emotions of patients. Many types of communication robots and pet robots have been developed as communication partners for patients. The user's emotions are ...

In this research, we take a first step in generating motion data for gestures directly from speech features. Such a method can make creating gesture animations for Embodied Conversational Agents much easier. We implemented a model using Bi-Directional ...

Seamless human-robot collaboration depends on high non-verbal behaviour recognition rates. To realize that in real-world manufacturing scenarios with an ecological valid setup, a lot of effort has to be invested. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of ...

Walking 8,000 steps in a day is one of the important criteria to maintain our health. However, we often miss a chance to walk due to the difficulty to keep our motivation toward our health in a daily life. We propose an algorithm to search an appropriate ...

A comparison between behavioural architectures, specifically a BDI architecture and a finite-state machine, for a collaborative package delivery system is presented. The system should assist a user in handling packages in cluttered environments. The ...

The HAI conference is the premier discussion venue on the topic of Human Agent Interaction. In this paper we present our findings from the scientometric analysis of full papers from the HAI conference since its inception to date. We extracted various ...