Eliciting Gestural Feedback in Chinese and Swedish Informal Interactions

In this paper, how people use gestural feedback to elicit further interaction is studied in Chinese and Swedish intercultural and mono-cultural interactions. The results can be used to make the intelligent virtual agents in Chinese and Swedish communication contexts behave more human-like.

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