Responsive listening behavior

Responsive listening behavior

Humans use their bodies in a highly expressive way during conversation, and animated characters that lack this form of non-verbal expression can seem stiff and unemotional. An important aspect of non-verbal expression is that people respond to each other’s behavior and are highly attuned to picking up this type of response. This is particularly important for the feedback given while listening t...

Responsive Behavior of a Listening Agent

Responsive Listening in Long-married Couples: a Psycholinguistic Perspective

Positive and responsive listening behavior benefits marital satisfaction, but previous reports have examined emotionally positive behavior confounded with responsive behavior, and focused primarily on younger marriages. Psycholinguistic views of listening suggest that responsive listening is distinct from emotionally positive listening. The former may change with an aging relationship, while th...

Impact of Listening Behavior on Music Recommendation

The next generation of music recommendation systems will be increasingly intelligent and likely take into account user behavior for more personalized recommendations. In this work we consider user behavior when making recommendations with features extracted from a user’s history of listening events. We investigate the impact of listener’s behavior by considering features such as play counts, “m...

Natural Behavior of a Listening Agent

In contrast to the variety of listening behaviors produced in humanto-human interaction, most virtual agents sit or stand passively when a user speaks. This is a reflection of the fact that although the correct responsive behavior of a listener during a conversation is often related to the semantics, the state of current speech understanding technology is such that semantic information is unava...