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Abstract
Human communication involves a number of verbal, vocal, and non-verbal cues that facilitate face-to-face communication. Building a computational understand- ing of how these cues might facilitate social and cognitive processes will enable new research directions in social and cognitive sciences and the design of so- cially interactive systems such as agents and robots. In this paper, we present preliminary work in modeling a particular communicative mechanism—listener nods—toward designing humanlike agents and robots that show appropriate so- cial behavior.∗