Publications

Name Pronunciation Extraction and Reuse in Human-Agent Conversation

• March 11, 2024

• James Kennedy
• Naveen Kumar
• Maike Paetzel-Prusmann

• Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2024

An Automatic Evaluation Framework for Social Conversations with Robots

• February 29, 2024

• Maike Paetzel-Prusmann
• Jill Fain Lehman
• Celia J. Gomez
• James Kennedy

• Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (2024)

Improving a Robot’s Turn-Taking Behavior in Dynamic Multiparty Interactions

• March 12, 2023

• Maike Paetzel-Prusmann
• James Kennedy

• Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2023

Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze

• October 23, 2020

• Matthew Pan
• Sungjoon Choi
• James Kennedy
• Kyna McIntosh
• Daniel Campos ZamoraDaniel
• Gunter Niemeyer (California Institute of Technology)
• Joohyung Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Alexis Wieland (Walt Disney Imagineering- Advanced Development)

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2020)

Dynamic Emotional Language Adaptation in Multiparty Interactions with Agents

• October 18, 2020

• Bahar Irfan (Disney Research/University of Plymouth, UK)
• Anika Narayanan
• James Kennedy

• International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2020

Smile and Laugh Dynamics in Naturalistic Dyadic Interactions: Intensity Levels, Sequences and Roles

• October 13, 2019

• Kevin El Haddad (University of MONS)
• Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula (University of Southern California)
• James Kennedy

• ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2019

Smile Intensity Detection in Multiparty Interaction using Deep Learning

• September 3, 2019

• James Kennedy
• Cristina Segalin
• Philine Witzig

• Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2019

Incremental Acquisition and Reuse of Multimodal Affective Behaviors in a Conversational Agent

• December 16, 2018

• Maike Paetzel (Uppsala University)
• James Kennedy
• Ginevra Castellano (Uppsala University)
• Jill F. Lehman

• International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction 2018

Expressing Coherent Personality with Incremental Acquisition of Multimodal Behaviors

• August 27, 2018

• Pedro Mota (Disney Research)
• Maike Paetzel (Disney Research)
• Andrea Fox (Disney Research)
• Aida Amini (Disney Research)
• Siddarth Srinivasan (Disney Research)
• James Kennedy
• Jill F. Lehman

• International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2018

Challenges in Exploiting Conversational Memory in Human-Agent Interaction

• July 11, 2018

• Joana Campos (Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research)
• James Kennedy
• Jill F. Lehman (Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research)

• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2018

Learning and Reusing Dialog for Repeated Interactions with a Situated Social Agent

• August 27, 2017

• James Kennedy
• Iolanda Leite (Disney Research Pittsburgh, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• André Pereira
• Ming Sun
• Boyang Albert Li
• Rishub Jain (Disney Research Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Ricson Cheng (Disney Research Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Eli Pincus (Disney Research Pittsburgh, USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
• Liz Carter
• Jill F. Lehman

• International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2017