Talking Heads, Signing Avatars and Social Robots
Jonas Beskow · 2015
Over the span of human existence our brains have evolved into sophisticated multimodal social signal processing machines.We are experts at detecting and decoding information from a variety of sources and interpreting this information in a social context.The human face is one of the most important social channels that plays a key role in the human communication chain.Today, with computer animated characters becoming ubiquitous in games and media, and social robots starting to bring human-like social interaction capabilities into the physical world, it is possible to build applications that leverage the unique human capability for social communication new ways to assist our lives and support us in a variety of domains.