MIT Theses

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Communicative Humanoids: Abstract Abstract Face-to-face interaction between people is generally effortless and effective. We exchange glances, take turns speaking and make facial and manual gestures to achieve the goals of the dialogue. Endowing computers with such an interaction style marks the beginning of a new era in our relationship with machines-one that relies on communication, social convention and dialogue skills. This thesis presents a computational model of psychosocial dialogue expertise, bridging between perceptual analysis of multimodal events and multimodal action generation, supporting the creation of interfaces that afford full-duplex, real-time face-to-face interaction between a human and autonomous computer characters. The architecture, called Ymir, has been implemented in software, and a prototype humanoid created.

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