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Catherine Pelachaud

Catherine Pelachaud

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Computer Science
France
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
59
Citations
13519
World Ranking
3436
National Ranking
57

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Catherine Pelachaud is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on computer science and psychology. Within these domains, their work extensively covers subfields such as artificial intelligence, social psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, human-computer interaction, and control and systems engineering.

The scientist has contributed to major topics including:

  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Human Motion and Animation
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Recent publications by Catherine Pelachaud include:

  • "The rise of affectivism," 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Engagement in Human-Agent Interaction: An Overview," 2020, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • "Conveying Emotions Through Device-Initiated Touch," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  • "Social Functions of Machine Emotional Expressions," 2023, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "Adaptive virtual agent: Design and evaluation for real-time human-agent interaction," 2024, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Frequent coauthors associated with their work include Mireille Fares, Nicolas Obin, Lucie Galland, Isabelle Bloch, and Birgit Lugrin.

Catherine Pelachaud's publications have appeared repeatedly in notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Language Resources and Evaluation, and Nature Human Behaviour.

The scientist has authored several book publications. Two editions of The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents were published by the Association for Computing Machinery in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, they contributed to the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Socially Intelligent human-like Virtual Agents (SIVA 2023), published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • Animated conversation: rule-based generation of facial expression, gesture & spoken intonation for multiple conversational agents

    Justine Cassell;Catherine Pelachaud;Norman Badler;Mark Steedman

  • Towards a common framework for multimodal generation : The behavior markup language

    Stefan Kopp;Brigitte Krenn;Stacy Marsella;Andrew N. Marshall

  • Bridging the Gap between Social Animal and Unsocial Machine: A Survey of Social Signal Processing

    Alessandro Vinciarelli;M. Pantic;D. Heylen;C. Pelachaud

  • From Greta's mind to her face: modelling the dynamics of affective states in a conversational embodied agent

    Fiorella de Rosis;Catherine Pelachaud;Isabella Poggi;Valeria Carofiglio

  • Generating facial expressions for speech

    Catherine Pelachaud;Norman I. Badler;Mark Steedman

  • APML, a Markup Language for Believable Behavior Generation

    Berardina De Carolis;Catherine Pelachaud;Isabella Poggi;Mark Steedman

  • The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges

    Hannes Vilhjálmsson;Nathan Cantelmo;Justine Cassell;Nicolas E. Chafai

  • Implementing expressive gesture synthesis for embodied conversational agents

    Björn Hartmann;Maurizio Mancini;Catherine Pelachaud

  • Implementing Expressive Gesture Synthesis for Embodied Conversational Agents

    Björn Hartmann;Maurizio Mancin;Catherine Pelachaud

  • Building Autonomous Sensitive Artificial Listeners

    M. Schroder;E. Bevacqua;R. Cowie;F. Eyben

  • GRETA. A BELIEVABLE EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT

    I. Poggi;C. Pelachaud;F. de Rosis;V. Carofiglio

  • Modelling multimodal expression of emotion in a virtual agent.

    Catherine Pelachaud

  • Studies on gesture expressivity for a virtual agent

    Catherine Pelachaud

  • Multimodal expressive embodied conversational agents

    Catherine Pelachaud

  • From brows to trust: evaluating embodied conversational agents

    Zsófia Ruttkay;Catherine Pelachaud

  • Embodied contextual agent in information delivering application

    Catherine Pelachaud;Valeria Carofiglio;Berardina De Carolis;Fiorella de Rosis

  • The TARDIS Framework: Intelligent Virtual Agents for Social Coaching in Job Interviews

    Keith Anderson;Elisabeth André;T. Baur;Sara Bernardini

  • Subtleties of facial expressions in embodied agents

    Catherine Pelachaud;Isabella Poggi

  • Performative facial expressions in animated faces

    Isabella Poggi;Catherine Pelachaud

  • Eye communication in a conversational 3D synthetic agent

    Isabella Poggi;Catherine Pelachaud;Fiorella De Rosis

  • Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction

    Yukiko I. Nakano;Elisabeth André;Toyoaki Nishida;Louis-Philippe Morency

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Heylen
Dirk Heylen University of Twente
Roddy Cowie
Roddy Cowie Queen's University Belfast
Alessandro Vinciarelli
Alessandro Vinciarelli University of Glasgow
Elisabeth André
Elisabeth André University of Augsburg
Norman I. Badler
Norman I. Badler University of Pennsylvania
Laurence Devillers
Laurence Devillers Sorbonne University
Maja Pantic
Maja Pantic Imperial College London
Björn Schuller
Björn Schuller Imperial College London
Stacy Marsella
Stacy Marsella Northeastern University
Stefan Kopp
Stefan Kopp Bielefeld University

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