Generating Listening Behaviour

Heylen, Dirk and Bevacqua, Elisabetta and Pelachaud, Catherine and Poggi, Isabella and Gratch, Jonathan and Schröder, Marc (2011) Generating Listening Behaviour. In: Emotion-oriented Systems: The Humaine Handbook. Cognitive Technologies . Springer Verlag, London, pp. 321-347. ISBN 9783642151835

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Abstract:	In face-to-face conversations listeners provide feedback and comments at the same time as speakers are uttering their words and sentence. This ‘talk’ in the backchannel provides speakers with information about reception and acceptance – or lack thereof – of their speech. Listeners, through short verbalisations and non-verbal signals, show how they are engaged in the dialogue. The lack of incremental, real-time processing has hampered the creation of conversational agents that can respond to the human interlocutor in real time as the speech is being produced. The need for such feedback in conversational agents is, however, undeniable for reasons of naturalism or believability, to increase the efficiency of communication and to show engagement and building of rapport. In this chapter, the joint activity of speakers and listeners that constitutes a conversation is more closely examined and the work that is devoted to the construction of agents that are able to show that they are listening is reviewed. Two issues are dealt with in more detail. The first is the search for appropriate responses for an agent to display. The second is the study of how listening responses may increase rapport between agents and their human partners in conversation.
Item Type:	Book Section
Copyright:	© 2011 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/79615
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15184-2_17
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