Divesh Lala

Divesh Lala

Kyoto University

H-index: 16

Asia-Japan

About Divesh Lala

Divesh Lala, With an exceptional h-index of 16 and a recent h-index of 14 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Kyoto University, specializes in the field of Artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, virtual agents, androids, dialogue systems.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Evaluation of a semi-autonomous attentive listening system with takeover prompting

Acknowledgment of Emotional States: Generating Validating Responses for Empathetic Dialogue

An Analysis of User Behaviours for Objectively Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Systems

Towards Objective Evaluation of Socially-Situated Conversational Robots: Assessing Human-Likeness through Multimodal User Behaviors

Prediction of Validating Response from Emotional Storytelling Corpus

Improving Empathetic Response Generation with Retrieval based on Emotion Recognition

Semi-autonomous Guide Agents with Simultaneous Handling of Multiple Users

Dual variational generative model and auxiliary retrieval for empathetic response generation by conversational robot

Divesh Lala Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

774

Citations(since 2020)

584

Cited By

383

hIndex(all)

16

hIndex(since 2020)

14

i10Index(all)

24

i10Index(since 2020)

18

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Kyoto University

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Divesh Lala Skills & Research Interests

Artificial intelligence

human-computer interaction

virtual agents

androids

dialogue systems

Top articles of Divesh Lala

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Evaluation of a semi-autonomous attentive listening system with takeover prompting

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.14863

Haruki Kawai

Divesh Lala

Koji Inoue

Keiko Ochi

Tatsuya Kawahara

2024/2/21

Acknowledgment of Emotional States: Generating Validating Responses for Empathetic Dialogue

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12770

Zi Haur Pang

Yahui Fu

Divesh Lala

Keiko Ochi

Koji Inoue

...

2024/2/20

An Analysis of User Behaviours for Objectively Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Systems

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Keiko Ochi

Tatsuya Kawahara

Gabriel Skantze

2024/1/10

Towards Objective Evaluation of Socially-Situated Conversational Robots: Assessing Human-Likeness through Multimodal User Behaviors

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Keiko Ochi

Tatsuya Kawahara

Gabriel Skantze

2023/10/9

Prediction of Validating Response from Emotional Storytelling Corpus

Zi Haur Pang

Yahui Fu

Divesh Lala

Keiko OCHI

Koji INOUE

...

2023

Improving Empathetic Response Generation with Retrieval based on Emotion Recognition

Yahui Fu

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Kenta Yamamoto

Chenhui Chu

...

2023/2

Semi-autonomous Guide Agents with Simultaneous Handling of Multiple Users

Yusuke Muraki

Haruki Kawai

Kenta Yamamoto

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

...

2023/2

Dual variational generative model and auxiliary retrieval for empathetic response generation by conversational robot

Advanced Robotics

Yahui Fu

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Kenta Yamamoto

Chenhui Chu

...

2023/11/2

Effect of attentive listening robot on pleasure and arousal change in psychiatric daycare

Advanced Robotics

Keiko Ochi

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Tatsuya Kawahara

Hirokazu Kumazaki

2023/11/2

Simultaneous job interview system using multiple semi-autonomous agents

Haruki Kawai

Yusuke Muraki

Kenta Yamamoto

Divesh Lala

Koji Inoue

...

2022/9

Alzheimer's Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Dialogue with Proactive Robotic Listeners

Yuanchao Li

Catherine Lai

Divesh Lala

Koji Inoue

Tatsuya Kawahara

2022/3/7

Backchannel generation model for a third party listener agent

Divesh Lala

Koji Inoue

Tatsuya Kawahara

Kei Sawada

2022/12/5

Can a robot laugh with you?: Shared laughter generation for empathetic spoken dialogue

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Tatsuya Kawahara

2022/9/15

Semi-autonomous avatar enabling unconstrained parallel conversations–seamless hybrid of WOZ and autonomous dialogue systems–

Advanced Robotics

Tatsuya Kawahara

Naoyuki Muramatsu

Kenta Yamamoto

Divesh Lala

Koji Inoue

2021/6/3

Intelligent Conversational Android ERICA Applied to Attentive Listening and Job Interview

arXiv preprint

Tatsuya Kawahara

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

2021

Response generation to out-of-database questions for example-based dialogue systems

Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade

Sota Isonishi

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Katsuya Takanashi

Tatsuya Kawahara

2021

An Attentive Listening System for Autonomous Android ERICA: Comparative Evaluation with Human Attentive Listeners

Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Kenta Yamamoto

Shizuka Nakamura

Katsuya Takanashi

...

2021/9

Engagement-based adaptive behaviors for laboratory guide in human-robot dialogue

Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems

Koji Inoue

Divesh Lala

Kenta Yamamoto

Katsuya Takanashi

Tatsuya Kawahara

2021

A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants

Koji Inoue

Hiromi Sakamoto

Kenta Yamamoto

Divesh Lala

Tatsuya Kawahara

2021

A job interview dialogue system with autonomous android ERICA

Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems

Koji Inoue

Kohei Hara

Divesh Lala

Shizuka Nakamura

Katsuya Takanashi

...

2021

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