Face-to-face interfaces

ABSTRACT

Recent work on the social nature of human-computer interactions [3] has prompted research on animated, anthropomorphic characters in user interfaces. Such interfaces may simplify user interactions by allowing them to use and interpret natural face-to-face communication techniques such as speech, gestures and facial expressions. We describe our initial implementation, a character that controls the A/V facilities in a state-of-the-art conference room, and outline the goals of our ongoing project.

REFERENCES

• 1: Justine Cassell , Catherine Pelachaud , Norman Badler , Mark Steedman , Brett Achorn , Tripp Becket , Brett Douville , Scott Prevost , Matthew Stone, Animated conversation: rule-based generation of facial expression, gesture & spoken intonation for multiple conversational agents, Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, p.413-420, July 1994 [doi>10.1145/192161.192272]
• 2: Duncan. S. Some Signals and Rules for Taking Speaking Turns in Conversations. In Nonverbal Communication (Weitz, ed.). Oxford Univ. Press. 1974.
• 3: Reeves, B., and Nass, C. The Media Equation. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• 4: Kristinn Runar Thorisson , Justine Cassell, Communicative humanoids: a computational model of psychosocial dialogue skills, 1996

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
conversational characters, multimodal systems