Greta, what else? Our research towards building socially interactive agents
Catherine Pélachaud · 2024
Over the years, with my group, we have conducted different studies to endow expressive communicative capabilities to socially interactive agents. We first focused on developing models for generating a wide variety of emotional expressions and social attitudes. While our initial research was geared toward the agent only, we then turned our attention to modeling agents as active interlocutors of human users. To such an aim, we integrated different adaptation mechanisms in the human-agent platform Greta. We implemented phenomena such as imitation, intra- and inter-synchronization, and conversational strategies. We conducted evaluation studies to measure the impact on users’ perception of the agent and of the interaction quality. In this talk, I will present some of our earlier works as well as our most recent ones.