FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION WITH COMPUTER AGENTS
Kristinn R. Þórisson · 2000
While computers are becoming more intelligent, current interaction methods, such as keyboards, mice and windows, still limit human-computer interaction to tool-level manipulation. Bringing a communication paradigm to the computer seems a worthy goal, in particular communication that people use every day to interact with each other. This work begins to attack this issue by examining some of the variables that allow people to conduct fluent and reactive turn-taking and give real-time feedback in everyday face-to-face interactions. A central part of this endeavor is the control of a graphical face that can produce some of the behavior exhibited by people in conversation. For the metaphor to be useful, the behavior of such faces has to be believable.