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Multimodal Embodied Mimicry in Interaction

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Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues

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Nonverbal behavior plays an important role in human-human interaction. One particular kind of nonverbal behavior is mimicry. Behavioral mimicry supports harmonious relationships in social interaction through creating affiliation, rapport, and liking between partners. Affective computing that employs mimicry knowledge and that is able to predict how mimicry affects social situations and relations can find immediate application in human-computer interaction to improve interaction. In this short paper we survey and discuss mimicry issues that are important from that point of view: application in human-computer interaction. We designed experiments to collect mimicry data. Some preliminary analysis of the data is presented.

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  1. Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Xiaofan Sun & Anton Nijholt

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  1. Dept. of Psychology and IIASS, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Second University of Naples, Vietri sul Mare, SA, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  3. Department of Telecommunication and Media Informatics, Laboratory of Speech Acoustics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Klára Vicsi

  4. TELECOM ParisTech, CNRS-LTCI UMR 5141, 75014, Paris, France

    Catherine Pelachaud

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Anton Nijholt

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Sun, X., Nijholt, A. (2011). Multimodal Embodied Mimicry in Interaction. In: Esposito, A., Vinciarelli, A., Vicsi, K., Pelachaud, C., Nijholt, A. (eds) Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_14

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