Towards investigating gaze and laughter coordination in socially interactive agents

Vladislav Maraev (1) , Chiara Mazzocconi (2, 3) , Christine Howes (1) , Catherine Pelachaud (4, 5, 6)

1 GU - Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg
2 ILCB - Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain
3 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
4 ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
5 PIROS - Perception, Interaction, Robotique sociales
6 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Gaze and laughter play a crucial role in managing miscommunication and coordinating social interactions. We hypothesise that models of laughter and gaze coordination in human dialogue extend to virtual entities. This paper describes methodology of the future experiment which involves a socially interactive agent (SIA) that incorporates previous theoretical findings. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → User models.

Keywords: gaze; laughter; virtual agents; socially interactive agents

Domains: Computer science; Linguistics; Psychology

Vladislav Maraev, Chiara Mazzocconi, Christine Howes, Catherine Pelachaud. Towards investigating gaze and laughter coordination in socially interactive agents. The Eleventh International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023), Dec 2023, Gothenburg (Sweden), Sweden. ⟨10.1145/3623809.3623968⟩. ⟨hal-04415493⟩