Generation of non-verbal behavior for an embodied conversational character

This thesis discusses the generation of multi-modal conversational cues in animated computer characters. Drawing from psycholinguistic literature of behaviors observed in human-human interactions, a study of turn-taking cues in a human-computer interaction, and previous work in creating animated conversational agents, I attempt to formulate a set of behaviors and appropriate times to produce these behaviors for a new conversational character, Rea.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Grantham, Sola

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Justine Cassell.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86275

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/86275