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The recent advancements introduced by Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support complex, real world tasks, pushing research outside the text boundaries towards multi modal contexts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Federico Toschi , Nicolò Brunello , Andrea Sassella , Vincenzo Scotti , Mark James Carman

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced in recent years, driving innovation across various fields, especially in robotics. Even though robots can perform complex tasks with increasing autonomy, challenges remain in ensuring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Anargh Viswanath , Lokesh Veeramacheneni , Hendrik Buschmeier

As robots increasingly become part of shared human spaces, their movements must transcend basic functionality by incorporating expressive qualities to enhance engagement and communication. This paper introduces a movement-centered design…

Designing project-based learning (PBL) demands managing highly interdependent components, a task that both traditional linear tools and purely conversational AI struggle with. Traditional tools fail to capture the non-linear nature of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ruijia Li , Bo Jiang

The fast pace of advances in AI promises to revolutionize various aspects of knowledge work, extending its influence to daily life and professional fields alike. We advocate for a paradigm where AI is seen as a collaborative co-pilot,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Abigail Sellen , Eric Horvitz

As AI systems increasingly become embedded in interactive and im-mersive artistic environments, artists and technologists are discovering new opportunities to engage with their interpretive and autonomous capacities as creative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Pavlos Panagiotidis , Jocelyn Spence , Nils Jaeger , Paul Tennent

Progress in Embodied AI has made it possible for end-to-end-trained agents to navigate in photo-realistic environments with high-level reasoning and zero-shot or language-conditioned behavior, but benchmarks are still dominated by…

Embodied agents, in the form of virtual agents or social robots, are rapidly becoming more widespread. In human-human interactions, humans use nonverbal behaviours to convey their attitudes, feelings, and intentions. Therefore, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Carson Yu Liu , Gelareh Mohammadi , Yang Song , Wafa Johal

Joint narratives are often used in the context of reconciliation interventions for people in social conflict situations, which arise, for example, due to ethnic or religious differences. The interventions aim to encourage a change in…

We present EmbodiedHead, a speech-driven talking-head framework that equips LLMs with real-time visual avatars for conversation. A practical embodied avatar must achieve real-time generation, unified listening-speaking behavior, and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yu Zhang , Kaiyuan Shen , Yang Li

Mixed reality platforms allow users to create virtual environments, yet novice users struggle with both ideation and execution in spatial design. While existing AI models can automatically generate scenes based on user prompts, the lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhuangze Hou , Jingze Tian , Nianlong Li , Farong Ren , Can Liu

Meaning has been called the "holy grail" of a variety of scientific disciplines, ranging from linguistics to philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences. The field of Artifical Intelligence (AI) is very much a part of that list: the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Douwe Kiela , Luana Bulat , Anita L. Vero , Stephen Clark

Recent advances in generative modeling have spurred a resurgence in the field of Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI). EAI systems typically deploy large language models to physical systems capable of interacting with their environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Selma Wanna , Fabian Parra , Robert Valner , Karl Kruusamäe , Mitch Pryor

Experiential AI is an emerging research field that addresses the challenge of making AI tangible and explicit, both to fuel cultural experiences for audiences, and to make AI systems more accessible to human understanding. The central theme…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Drew Hemment , Matjaz Vidmar , Daga Panas , Dave Murray-Rust , Vaishak Belle , Aylett Ruth

This empirical study serves as a primer for interested service providers to determine if and how Large Language Models (LLMs) technology will be integrated for their practitioners and the broader community. We investigate the mutual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qingxiao Zheng , Zhongwei Xu , Abhinav Choudhry , Yuting Chen , Yongming Li , Yun Huang

Embodied AI has been recently gaining attention as it aims to foster the development of autonomous and intelligent agents. In this paper, we devise a novel embodied setting in which an agent needs to explore a previously unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Federico Landi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

A common vision from science fiction is that robots will one day inhabit our physical spaces, sense the world as we do, assist our physical labours, and communicate with us through natural language. Here we study how to design artificial…

We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

In this paper, we present a methodology for the development of embodied conversational agents for social virtual worlds. The agents provide multimodal communication with their users in which speech interaction is included. Our proposal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 D. Griol , A. Sanchis , J. M. Molina , Z. Callejas

The term co-creativity has been used to describe a wide variety of human-AI assemblages in which human and AI are both involved in a creative endeavor. In order to assist with disambiguating research efforts, we present an ontology of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Zhiyu Lin , Mark Riedl