Catherine PELACHAUD

Awards

• 2017 : Influential paper Award of IFAAMAS
• 2016 : Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Genève
• 2015 : ACM – SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
Best Papers
• Brian Ravenet, Angelo Cafaro, Beatrice Biancardi, Magalie Ochs, Catherine Pelachaud, Conversational Behavior Reflecting Interpersonal Attitudes in Small Group Interactions, Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'15, Delft, Hollande, Aug 2015. (Best Paper Award)
• Yuyu Xu, Catherine Pelachaud, and Stacy Marsella, Compound Gesture Generation: A Model Based On Ideational Units, Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'14, pp 477-491, Aug 2014. (Best Paper Award)
• Mathieu Chollet, Magalie Ochs and Catherine Pelachaud, From Non-verbal Signals Sequence Mining to Bayesian Networks for Interpersonal Attitudes Expression (Long Paper), Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA'14, pp 120-133, Aug 2014, (Best Paper Award Nominee)
• Yu Ding, Catherine Pelachaud, and Thierry Artières, Modeling Multimodal Behaviors From Speech Prosody, Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA, Edinburgh, 2013, 217-228. (Best Paper Award Nominee)
• Schröder, M., Baggia, P., Burkhardt, F., Pelachaud, C., Peter, C., Zovato, E. (2011). EmotionML - an upcoming standard for representing emotions and related states. Proc. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII. Memphis, TN, USA. 2011 (Best Paper Award Nominee)
• R. Niewiadomski, V. Demeure, C. Pelachaud, Warmth, competence, believability and virtual agents, International conference on Intelligent virtual agents IVA'10, Philadelphia, Sept 2010, pp. 272-285. (Best Paper Award)
• M. Schröder, E. Bevacqua, F. Eyben, H. Gunes, D. Heylen, M. ter Maat, S. Pammi, M. Pantic, C. Pelachaud, B. Schüller, E. de Sevin, M. Valstar, M. Wollmer, A Demonstration of Audiovisual Sensitive Artificial Listeners, ACII 2009, Demo, Amsterdam Sept 2009, 2p. (Best Demo Award).
• Stéphanie Buisine, Sarkis Abrilian, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Jean-Claude Martin, Laurence Devillers, Catherine Pelachaud, Perception of Blended Emotions: From Video Corpus to Expressive Agent, The 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina del Rey, pp. 93-106, August 2006, (Best paper award)

Selected publications

Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, David Traum (Eds), The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents, Vol 1, 2021-2022, ACM 

Biancardi, B., Dermouche, S., Pelachaud, C. Adaptation Mechanisms in Human-Agent Interaction: Effects on User's Impressions and Engagement. Frontiers in Computer Science, vol 3, 2021.

Daniel Dukes, et al., Are we now in the era of affectivism?, Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 816-820, 2021. 

Mark Snaith, Nicholas Conway, Tessa Beinema, Dominic De Franco, Alison Pease, Reshmashree Kantharaju, Mathilde Janier, Gerwin Huizing, Catherine Pelachaud, Harm op den Akker, (2021), A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals, Language Resources and Evaluation. 

Oertel, C., Castellano, G., Chetouani, M., Nasir, J., Obaid, M., Pelachaud, C., Peters, C. E. (2020). Engagement in Human-Agent Interaction: An Overview. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7, 92.

Marc Teyssier, Gilles Bailly, Catherine Pelachaud, Eric Lecolinet, Conveying Emotions Through Device-Initiated Touch, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2020

Soumia Dermouche, Catherine Pelachaud, Leveraging the Dynamics of Non-Verbal Behaviors For Social Attitude Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2020

B. Biancardi, P. Lerner, M. Mancini, C. Pelachaud, Managing an Agent’s Self-presentational Strategies during an Interaction, Frontiers in Robotics and AI - Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction, 6:93, 2019 

Angelo Cafaro, Brian Ravenet, Catherine Pelachaud, Exploiting evolutionary algorithm to design interrupting nonverbal behaviors for virtual characters, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2019 

S Hyniewska, W Sato, S Kaiser, C Pelachaud, Naturalistic emotion decoding from facial action sets, Frontiers in Psychology vol. 9, 2678, 2019

International collaborations

University of Twente (The Netherlands), Northeastern University (USA), Glasgow University (UK), University Southern California (USA), University of Nottingham (UK)