publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order. PDFs are author final versions.

2024

2024

  1. ToG
    Evaluating gesture generation in a large-scale open challenge: The GENEA Challenge 2022
    Taras Kucherenko, Pieter Wolfert, Youngwoo Yoon, Carla Viegas, Teodor Nikolov, Mihail Tsakov, and Gustav Eje Henter
    ACM Trans. Graph., Apr 2024
    Just Accepted
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  2. HRI
    Multi-modal Language Learning: Explorations on learning Japanese Vocabulary
    Pieter Wolfert, Lisa De Gersem, Ruben Janssens, and Tony Belpaeme
    In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Apr 2024
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  3. MDPI
    Exploring the Effectiveness of Evaluation Practices for Computer-Generated Nonverbal Behaviour
    Pieter Wolfert, Gustav Eje Henter, and Tony Belpaeme
    Applied Sciences, Apr 2024
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2023

2023

  1. ICIM
    "Am I listening?", Evaluating the Quality of Generated Data-driven Listening Motion
    Pieter Wolfert, Gustav Eje Henter, and Tony Belpaeme
    In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’ 23 Companion), Apr 2023
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  2. HRI
    Limitations of Audiovisual Speech on Robots for Second Language Pronunciation Learning
    Saya Amioka, Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, Qiaoqiao Ren, Maria Jose Pinto Bernal, and Tony Belpaeme
    In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Apr 2023
  3. HRI
    The Effect of Simple Emotional Gesturing in a Socially Assistive Robot on Child’s Engagement at a Group Vaccination Day
    Anouk Neerincx, Jessica Leven, Pieter Wolfert, and Maartje MA Graaf
    In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Apr 2023

2022

2022

  1. ICMI
    The GENEA Challenge 2022: A large evaluation of data-driven co-speech gesture generation
    Youngwoo Yoon, Pieter Wolfert, Taras Kucherenko, Carla Viegas, Teodor Nikolov, Mihail Tsakov, and Gustav Eje Henter
    In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Apr 2022
  2. ICMI
    GENEA Workshop 2022: The 3rd Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents
    Pieter Wolfert, Taras Kucherenko, Carla Viegas, Zerrin Yumak, Youngwoo Yoon, and Gustav Eje Henter
    In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Apr 2022
  3. HRI
    "Cool glasses, where did you get them? Generating Visually Grounded Conversation Starters for Human-Robot Dialogue
    Ruben Janssens, Pieter Wolfert, Thomas Demeester, and Tony Belpaeme
    In 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Apr 2022
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  4. THMS
    A Review of Evaluation Practices of Gesture Generation in Embodied Conversational Agents
    Pieter Wolfert, Nicole Robinson, and Tony Belpaeme
    IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems, Apr 2022
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2021

2021

  1. ICMI
    To Rate or Not To Rate: Investigating Evaluation Methods forGenerated Co-Speech Gestures
    Pieter Wolfert, Jeffrey M. Girard, Taras Kucherenko, and Tony Belpaeme
    In International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Apr 2021
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  2. ICMI
    HEMVIP: Human evaluation of multiple videos in parallel
    Patrik Jonell, Youngwoo Yoon, Pieter Wolfert, Taras Kucherenko, and Gustav Eje Henter
    In International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Apr 2021
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  3. IUI
    A large, crowdsourced evaluation of gesture generation systems on common data
    Taras Kucherenko, Patrik Jonell, Youngwoo Yoon, Pieter Wolfert, and Gustav Eje Henter
    In Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Apr 2021
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  4. HRI
    Communicative Function of Eye Blinks of Virtual Avatars May Not Translate onto Physical Platforms
    Djamari Oetringer, Pieter Wolfert, Jorre Deschuyteneer, Serge Thill, and Tony Belpaeme
    In in press, Apr 2021
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2020

2020

  1. The GENEA Challenge 2020: Benchmarking gesture-generation systems on common data
    Taras Kucherenko, Patrik Jonell, Youngwoo Yoon, Pieter Wolfert, and Gustav Eje Henter
    In International Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-Verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents, Apr 2020
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  2. HRI
    Security Risks of Social Robots Used to Persuade and Manipulate: A Proof of Concept Study
    Pieter Wolfert, Jorre Deschuyteneer, Djamari Oetringer, Nicole Robinson, and Tony Belpaeme
    In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Apr 2020
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2019

2019

  1. Should beat gestures be learned or designed? A benchmarking user study
    Pieter Wolfert, Taras Kucherenko, Hedvig Kjelström, and Tony Belpaeme
    In ICDL-EPIROB 2019 Workshop on Naturalistic Non-Verbal and Affective Human-Robot Interactions, Apr 2019
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  2. HRI
    Playing charades with a robot: collecting a large dataset of human gestures through HRI
    Jan Wit, Bram Willemsen, Mirjam Haas, Emiel Krahmer, Paul Vogt, Marije Merckens, Reinjet Oostdijk, Chani Savelberg, Sabine Verdult, and Pieter Wolfert
    In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Apr 2019
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2018

2018

  1. Playful exploration of a robot’s gesture production and recognition abilities
    Jan Wit, Bram Willemsen, Mirjam Haas, Pieter Wolfert, Paul Vogt, and Emiel Krahmer
    In Workshop on Gesture & Technology, Apr 2018
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  2. Measuring Engagement Online in CRI
    Pieter Wolfert, Mirjam Haas, Paul Vogt, and Pim Haselager
    In ACM SIGCHI IDC2018 Workshop on Children’s Robotics and Child-Robot Interaction, Apr 2018
  3. Thesis
    Online engagement prediction in child-robot interaction
    AP Wolfert
    Apr 2018
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2015

2015

  1. BNAIC
    The robo-havioral methodology: Developing neuroscience theories with foes
    Maria Otworowska, Jordi Riemens, C Kamphuis, P Wolfert, L Vuurpijl, and Johan Kwisthout
    In Proceedings of the 27th Benelux Conference on AI (BNAIC’15), Apr 2015
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