Ann-Kareen Gedeus

TANDE: Disentangling Verbal and Nonverbal Backchannels in Emotional AI-Avatar Conversations with Young Adults

Ann-Kareen Gedeus, Jack Good, Nadine Wagener, Angelique Taylor

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) need effective empathic grounding to foster social support and engagement. Expanding into emotional domains, ECAs now use Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal human-agent interactions to enhance their capabilities. Yet, understanding t…Read more