Types of utterances that belong to meta-levels of activity have been singled out in spoken task-focused dialogues between subjects accomplishing a matching task with no visual contact. The types include activity management and planning, global and local (e.g. signals of activity phase); explicit evaluation of the state of joint project, communicative utterances for conversation management; back...

In this paper we present a novel approach for mimicking expressions in 3D from a monocular video sequence. To this end, first we construct a high resolution semantic mesh model through automatic global and local registration of a low resolution range data. The MPEG-4 standard and radial basis functions are then considered to represent and animate such a model using a predefined set of control p...

s of the EU life algae Programme Conference 2001. Länsstyrelsen iGöteborgs and Bohus län. Sida 53.Jenneborg, L-H. 1998. Marinbiologisk kontroll: Ålgräsvegetationen inom Göteborgskommun. Miljöförvaltningen Göteborgs stad. HydroGIS AB rapport 176. 10sidor.2000a. Ålgräsvegetationen i Göteborgs kustvattenområden. Miljö-förvaltningen Göteborgs stad rapport 2000:3. HydroGIS AB...

Recent research has established the potential for virtual characters to establish rapport with humans through simple contingent nonverbal behaviors. We hypothesized that the contingency, not just the frequency of positive feedback is crucial when it comes to creating rapport. The primary goal in this study was evaluative: can an agent generate behavior that engenders feelings of rapport in huma...

The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...