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Catherine Pelachaud

ISIR (Sorbonne Universités)

Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS-ISIR) is Director of Research in the laboratory ISIR, Sorbonne University. Her research interest includes socially interactive agent, nonverbal communication (face, gaze, gesture and touch), and adaptive mechanisms in interaction. With her research team, she has been developing an interactive virtual agent platform, Greta, that can display emotional and communicative behaviors. She is co-editor of the ACM handbook on socially interactive agents (2021-22).

Modeling Socially Interactive Agents as Interaction Partners

During an interaction, participants demonstrate interpersonal coordination by adapting to each other. Coordination can be marked by the reciprocity of behaviours and their similarity. A wide variety of cues, such as multimodal behaviours, linguistic cues, politeness strategies, beliefs, social attitudes, and emotions, may be involved. Adapting the multimodal behaviours of a socially interactive agent to the behaviours of its human interlocutors can promote engagement, build rapport and trust, and support the learning process. In this talk, I will present some of the work we have explored. I will describe the computer models of the different adaptation mechanisms and the experimental studies we have carried out to validate them.