A Framework for Integrating Gesture Generation Models into Interactive Conversational Agents
| Autor: | Nagy, Rajmund, Kucherenko, Taras, Moell, Birger, Pereira, André, Kjellström, Hedvig, Bernardet, Ulysses |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) benefit from non-verbal behavior for natural and efficient interaction with users. Gesticulation - hand and arm movements accompanying speech - is an essential part of non-verbal behavior. Gesture generation models have been developed for several decades: starting with rule-based and ending with mainly data-driven methods. To date, recent end-to-end gesture generation methods have not been evaluated in a real-time interaction with users. We present a proof-of-concept framework, which is intended to facilitate evaluation of modern gesture generation models in interaction. We demonstrate an extensible open-source framework that contains three components: 1) a 3D interactive agent; 2) a chatbot backend; 3) a gesticulating system. Each component can be replaced, making the proposed framework applicable for investigating the effect of different gesturing models in real-time interactions with different communication modalities, chatbot backends, or different agent appearances. The code and video are available at the project page https://nagyrajmund.github.io/project/gesturebot. Comment: Rajmund Nagy and Taras Kucherenko contributed equally to this work. To be published in the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021), Online, May 3-7, 2021, IFAA-MAS, 3 pages, 1 figure |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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