BIANCARDI Beatrice

Research team

Learning and Innovating

Research Interests

Social Signal Processing, Human-human and Human-computer Interaction, Group Dynamics, Virtual Agents, Non-verbal Behavior

Co-supervision of PhD Theses

• Tristan LANNUZEL, “L’intelligence artificielle au service de l’intelligence collective dans un environnement immersif”, since December 2023. Co-supervision 40% with Stéphanie BUISINE (CESI LINEACT) et Mukesh BARANGE (CESI LINEACT)
• Alisa BARKAR, “Modèles d’attention multimodale pour évaluer et fournir un retour d’information sur la capacité à parler en public”, since November 2022. Co-supervision 30% with Chloé CLAVEL (Inria Paris), Mathieu CHOLLET (University of Glasgow) and Matthieu LABEAU (Télécom Paris)
• Anna MARTIN COESEL, “L’impact de l’incarnation d’un avatar dans le contexte des environnements virtuels de formation”, since October 2022. Co-supervision 60% with Stéphanie BUISINE (CESI LINEACT)

Selected Publications

International Journals with peer-review

• Biancardi, B., Chollet, M., & Clavel, C. (2024). Introducing the 3MT_French dataset to investigate the timing of public speaking judgements. Language Resources & Evaluation, 19 pages. 10.1007/s10579-023-09709-5
• Biancardi, B., Mancini, M., Ravenet, B., & Varni, G. (2023). Modelling the “transactive memory system” in multimodal multiparty interactions. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 18, 103-117, 14 pages. 10.1007/s12193-023-00426-5
• Biancardi, B., Dermouche, S., & Pelachaud, C. (2021). Adaptation Mechanisms in Human-Agent Interaction: Effects on User’s Impressions and Engagement. Frontiers in Computer Sciences, Human-Media Interaction, 3, 69, 19 pages. doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2021.696682
• Biancardi, B., Mancini, M., Lerner, P., & Pelachaud, C. (2019). Managing an Agent’s Self-presentational Strategies during an Interaction. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6, 93, 16 pages. doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00093
• Mancini, M., Biancardi, B., Pecune, F., Varni, G., Ding, Y., Pelachaud, C., & Camurri, A. (2017). Implementing and evaluating a laughing virtual character. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 17(1), 22 pages. doi.org/10.1145/2998571

International Conferences with peer-review

• Barkar, A., Chollet, M., Biancardi, B., & Clavel, C. (2023, October). Insights Into the Importance of Linguistic Textual Features on the Persuasiveness of Public Speaking. In Companion Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) (pp. 51-55). ACM, New York. doi.org/10.1145/3610661.3617161
• Biancardi, B., Lauletta, E., Norelli, A., Panconesi, A., & Mancini, M. (2023, September). Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum: A Follow-Up Study on the Human-Likeness of an AI Othello Player. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) (pp. 1-3). ACM, New York. doi.org/10.1145/3570945.3607327
• Biancardi, B., Duan, Y., Chollet, M., & Clavel, C. (2023, February). It’s not Just What You Do but also When You Do It: Novel Perspectives for Informing Interactive Public Speaking Training. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023), Volume 2: HUCAPP (pp. 193-200). SCITEPRESS. doi.org/10.5220/0011680400003417
• Lauletta, E., Biancardi, B., Mancini, M., Norelli, A., & Panconesi, A. (2022, September). Errare humanum est? a pilot study to evaluate the human-likeness of a AI Othello playing agent. In Proceedings of the 22rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) (pp. 1-3). ACM, New York. doi.org/10.1145/3570945.3607327
• Biancardi, B., O’Toole, P., Giaccaglia, I., Ravenet, B., Pitt, I., Mancini, M., & Varni, G. (2021, September). How ECA vs Human Leaders Affect the Perception of Transactive Memory System (TMS) in a Team. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII). IEEE Computer Society. doi.org/10.1109/ACII52823.2021.9597454
• Biancardi, B., Maisonnave-Couterou, L., Renault, P., Ravenet, B., Mancini, M., & Varni, G. (2020, October). The WoNoWa Dataset: Investigating the Transactive Memory System in Small Group Interactions. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) (pp. 528-537). ACM, New York. BEST PAPER NOMINEE. doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418843
• Biancardi, B., Wang, C., Mancini, M., Cafaro, A., Chanel, G., & Pelachaud, C. (2019, September). A Computational Model for Managing Impressions of an Embodied Conversational Agent in Real-Time. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) (pp. 1-7). IEEE Computer Society. doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ACII.2019.8925495