Foreword

1 Introduction to Socially Interactive Agents -- 1.1 Potential of SIAs -- 1.2 Terminology -- 1.3 Origin and Embodiment -- 1.4 Purpose of the Book -- 1.5 Structure of the Book -- 1.6 Further Readings -- Acknowledgments -- References

PART I ESTABLISHING SIA RESEARCH

2 Empirical Methods in the Social Science for Researching Socially Interactive Agents -- 2.1 Motivation -- 2.2 Models and Approaches -- 2.3 Research Tools -- 2.4 Current Challenges -- 2.5 Future Directions -- 2.6 Summary -- 2.A Appendix A -- References

3 Social Reactions to Socially Interactive Agents and Their Ethical Implications -- 3.1 Motivation -- 3.2 Models and Approaches -- 3.3 History/Overview -- 3.4 Similarities and Differences in IVAs and SRs -- 3.5 Current Challenges -- 3.6 Future Directions -- 3.7 Summary -- References

PART II APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOR

4 Appearance -- 4.1 Why Appearance? -- 4.2 History -- 4.3 Design -- 4.4 Features -- 4.5 Summary -- References

5 Natural Language Understanding in Socially Interactive Agents -- 5.1 Natural Language Understanding in Interactive Agents -- 5.2 NLU and Interactive Virtual Agent Features -- 5.3 Developing NLU -- 5.4 NLU and Interaction Modalities -- 5.5 NLU Induction From Examples -- 5.6 The NLU Usability Paradox -- 5.7 Context -- 5.8 Conclusions -- References

6 Building and Designing Expressive Speech Synthesis -- 6.1 Introduction and Motivation -- 6.2 Expressive Speech-A Working Definition -- 6.3 Building Expressive Synthesis -- 6.4 Fundamental Considerations When Designing Expressive Agents -- 6.5 Current Challenges and Future Directions in Expressive Synthesis -- 6.6 Summary -- References

7 Gesture Generation -- 7.1 The Importance of Gesture in Social Interaction -- 7.2 Models and Approaches -- 7.3 Similarities and Differences in Intelligent Virtual Agents and Social Robots -- 7.4 Current Challenges -- 7.5 Future Directions -- 7.6 Summary -- References

8 Multimodal Behavior Modeling for Socially Interactive Agents -- 8.1 Motivation -- 8.2 Nonverbal Behavior Representation -- 8.3 Models and Approaches -- 8.4 History/Overview -- 8.5 Databases -- 8.6 Similarities and Differences in IVAs and SRs -- 8.7 Current and Future Challenges -- 8.8 Summary and Conclusion -- References

PART III SOCIAL COGNITION-MODELS AND PHENOMENA

9 Theory of Mind and Joint Attention -- 9.1 Social Cognitive Neuroscience and SIA -- 9.2 Theory of Mind and Joint Attention-Crucial Mechanisms of Social Cognition -- 9.3 Theory of Mind in Artificial Agents -- 9.4 Modeling Social Cognition -- 9.5 Comparison of IVAs and SRs -- 9.6 Current Challenges -- References

10 Emotion -- 10.1 Motivation -- 10.2 Computational Models and Approaches -- 10.3 History/Overview -- 10.4 Similarities and Differences in IVAs and SRs -- 10.5 Current Challenges and Future Directions -- 10.6 Summary -- References

11 Empathy and Prosociality in Social Agents -- 11.1 Motivation -- 11.2 Concepts and Framework -- 11.3 Models and Architectures to Build Empathy and Prosociality -- 11.4 Empathy and Prosociality in the Interaction with SIAs -- 11.5 Toward Prosociality in Populations with SIAs -- 11.6 Summary and Current Challenges -- Acknowledgments -- References

12 Rapport Between Humans and Socially Interactive Agents -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Rapport Theory -- 12.3 History and Overview of Rapport Agents -- 12.4 Empirical Findings -- 12.5 Discussion and Conclusion -- References

13 Culture for Socially Interactive Agents -- 13.1 Motivation -- 13.2 Theories and Approaches -- 13.3 History -- 13.4 Evaluation of SIAs That are Based on Cultural Information -- 13.5 Role of Embodiment -- 13.6 Current Challenges -- 13.7 Future Perspectives -- 13.8 Summary -- References

Authors' Biographies -- A.1 Editors -- A.2 Chapter Authors

Index

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