“Gesture Generation” by Carolyn Saund and Stacy Marsella. In The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Methods, Behavior, Cognition, (New York, NY, USA), 2021.
Gestures accompany our speech in ways that punctuate, augment, substitute for, and even contradict verbal information. Such co-speech gestures draw listener attention to specific phrases, indicate the speaker feelings toward a subject, or even convey off-the-record information that is excluded from our spoken words. The study of co-speech gesture stretches at least as far back as the work of Quintilian in 50 AD, and draws from the disciplines of cognitive science, performance arts, politics, and, more recently, computer science and robotics. Gesture is a critical tool to enrich face-to-face communication, of which social artificial agents have yet to take full advantage. In this chapter, we discuss the importance, selection, production, challenges, and future of co-speech gestures for artificial social intelligent agents.
BibTeX entry:
@incollection{SaundACM2021,
author = {Carolyn Saund and Stacy Marsella},
title = {Gesture Generation},
booktitle = {The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 Years of
Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual
Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Methods, Behavior,
Cognition},
edition = {1},
pages = {213{\^a}258},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
year = {2021},
isbn = {9781450387200},
url = {https://stacymarsella.org/publications/pdf/SaundACM2021.pdf}
}
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