Expressions of Empathy in ECAs

@inproceedings{niewiadomski:ochs:pelachaud:iva:2008, abstract = {Recent research has shown that empathic virtual agents enable to improve human-machine interaction. Virtual agent’s expressions of empathy are generally fixed intuitively and are not evaluated. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the expressions of empathy using complex facial expressions like superposition and masking. An evaluation study have been conducted in order to identify the most appropriate way to express empathy. According to the evaluation results people find more suitable facial expressions that contain elements of emotion of empathy. In particular, complex facial expressions seem to be a good approach to express empathy.}, author = {Niewiadomski, Radoslaw and Ochs, Magalie and Pelachaud, Catherine }, booktitle = {Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '08)}, citeulike-article-id = {3374503}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8\_4}, journal = {Intelligent Virtual Agents}, keywords = {eca, empathic, expression}, pages = {37--44}, posted-at = {2008-10-04 19:36:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Expressions of Empathy in ECAs}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8\_4}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - niewiadomski:ochs:pelachaud:iva:2008 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3374503 N2 - Recent research has shown that empathic virtual agents enable to improve human-machine interaction. Virtual agent’s expressions of empathy are generally fixed intuitively and are not evaluated. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the expressions of empathy using complex facial expressions like superposition and masking. An evaluation study have been conducted in order to identify the most appropriate way to express empathy. According to the evaluation results people find more suitable facial expressions that contain elements of emotion of empathy. In particular, complex facial expressions seem to be a good approach to express empathy. JF - Intelligent Virtual Agents EP - 44 TI - Expressions of Empathy in ECAs T2 - Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '08) SP - 37 KW - eca KW - empathic KW - expression AU - Niewiadomski, Radoslaw AU - Ochs, Magalie AU - Pelachaud, Catherine PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_4 ER -