| 2026 | SIGdial | On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels. | Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2025 | CHI | Does the Appearance of Autonomous Conversational Robots Affect User Spoken Behaviors in Real-World Conference Interactions? | Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Divesh Lala, Mikey Elmers, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2025 | COLING | Human-Like Embodied AI Interviewer: Employing Android ERICA in Real International Conference. | Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Divesh Lala, Mikey Elmers, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2025 | ICMI | CCMI 2025: Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction. | Koji Inoue, Shogo Okada, Divesh Lala, Sahba Zojaji, Nancy F. Chen, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2025 | ICMI | Real-time Generation of Various Types of Nodding for Avatar Attentive Listening System. | Kazushi Kato, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2025 | Interspeech | Triadic Multi-party Voice Activity Projection for Turn-taking in Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Mikey Elmers, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2025 | NAACL | Yeah, Un, Oh: Continuous and Real-time Backchannel Prediction with Fine-tuning of Voice Activity Projection. | Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Gabriel Skantze, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Prompt-Guided Turn-Taking Prediction. | Koji Inoue, Mikey Elmers, Yahui Fu, Zi Haur Pang, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2024 | Interspeech | Entrainment Analysis and Prosody Prediction of Subsequent Interlocutor's Backchannels in Dialogue. | Keiko Ochi, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2023 | ICMI | 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 |
| 2022 | HAI | Backchannel Generation Model for a Third Party Listener Agent. | Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara, Kei Sawada |
| 2022 | HRI | Alzheimer's Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Dialogue with Proactive Robotic Listeners. | Yuanchao Li, Catherine Lai, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2022 | SIGdial | Simultaneous Job Interview System Using Multiple Semi-autonomous Agents. | Haruki Kawai, Yusuke Muraki, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2021 | SIGdial | A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants. | Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2021 | SIGdial | ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 Quarantine. | Etsuko Ishii, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara, Pascale Fung |
| 2020 | ACL | Designing Precise and Robust Dialogue Response Evaluators. | Tianyu Zhao, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2020 | ICMI | Job Interviewer Android with Elaborate Follow-up Question Generation. | Koji Inoue, Kohei Hara, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2020 | ICMI | Prediction of Shared Laughter for Human-Robot Dialogue. | Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2020 | SIGdial | An Attentive Listening System with Android ERICA: Comparison of Autonomous and WOZ Interactions. | Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2019 | ICMI | Smooth Turn-taking by a Robot Using an Online Continuous Model to Generate Turn-taking Cues. | Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2019 | IJCAI | ERICA and WikiTalk. | Divesh Lala, Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Analysis of Effect and Timing of Fillers in Natural Turn-Taking. | Divesh Lala, Shizuka Nakamura, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2018 | ICASSP | Audio-Visual Conversation Analysis by Smart Posterboard and Humanoid Robot. | Tatsuya Kawahara, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Katsuya Takanashi |
| 2018 | ICMI | Evaluation of Real-time Deep Learning Turn-taking Models for Multiple Dialogue Scenarios. | Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2018 | Interspeech | Engagement Recognition in Spoken Dialogue via Neural Network by Aggregating Different Annotators' Models. | Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2017 | ICAART | Utterance Behavior of Users While Playing Basketball with a Virtual Teammate. | Divesh Lala, Yuanchao Li, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Attentive listening system with backchanneling, response generation and flexible turn-taking. | Divesh Lala, Pierrick Milhorat, Koji Inoue, Masanari Ishida, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2016 | ETRA | Heat map visualization of multi-slice medical images through correspondence matching of video frames. | Divesh Lala, Atsushi Nakazawa |
| 2016 | ICMI | Annotation and analysis of listener's engagement based on multi-modal behaviors. | Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2016 | ICMI | Multimodal interaction with the autonomous Android ERICA. | Divesh Lala, Pierrick Milhorat, Koji Inoue, Tianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2016 | IVA | Managing Dialog and Joint Actions for Virtual Basketball Teammates. | Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2016 | SIGdial | Talking with ERICA, an autonomous android. | Koji Inoue, Pierrick Milhorat, Divesh Lala, Tianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2015 | ACIIDS | Synthetic Evidential Study as Augmented Collective Thought Process - Preliminary Report. | Toyoaki Nishida, Masakazu Abe, Takashi Ookaki, Divesh Lala, Sutasinee Thovutikul, Hengjie Song, Yasser F. O. Mohammad, Christian Nitschke, Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Atsushi Nakazawa, Takaaki Shochi, Jean-Luc Rouas, Aurlie Bugeau, Fabien Lotte, Zuheng Ming, Geoffrey Letournel, Marine Guerry, Dominique Fourer |
| 2015 | ICAART | User Perceptions of Communicative and Task-competent Agents in a Virtual Basketball Game. | Divesh Lala, Christian Nitschke, Toyoaki Nishida |
| 2015 | VRST | An imitation-based approach to represent common ground in a virtual basketball agent team mate. | Divesh Lala, Toyoaki Nishida |
| 2011 | GRC | VISIE: A spatially immersive interaction environment using real-time human measurement. | Divesh Lala, Toyoaki Nishida |