Embodied Conversational Agent-Based Kiosk for Automated Interviewing
JF Nunamaker, DC Derrick, AC Elkins... - Journal of ..., 2011 - ME Sharpe
We have created an automated kiosk that uses embodied intelligent agents to interview
individuals and detect changes in arousal, behavior, and cognitive effort by using
psychophysiological information systems. In this paper, we describe the system and ...
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Using Conversational Agents To Help Teach Information Security Risk Analysis
[PDF] from thinkmind.orgS Kowalski, R Hoffmann, R Jain... - SOTICS 2011, The First ..., 2011 - thinkmind.org
Abstract: New social eco-systems and globalization are creating new challenges to
educational institutions. Teachers need now not only to consider personal differences
among their students, but also to take care of different cultural behaviors. Teachers are ...
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Scripting Animated Conversational Agents in an Internet Multi-Agent Advertising System
ZW Hong, CH Chuang, CH Wu, KY Chin... - Journal of Convergence ..., 2011 - csa.com
This study is aimed to develop an agent-based Internet advertising system. This system
allows consumers actively announce requirements. Therefore, advertisers are easier to find
and analyze potential consumers for designing appropriate advertisements. Furthermore, ...
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An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Promoting Long-term Health Behavior Change using Motivational Interviewing
[PDF] from relationalagents.comD Schulman, T Bickmore... - 2011 AAAI Spring Symposium ..., 2011 - aaai.org
Abstract We present a conversational agent designed as a virtual counselor for health
behavior change. The agent incorporates techniques drawn from Motivational Interviewing
to enhance client motivation and confidence to change; these techniques are modeled ...
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Older user-computer interaction on the internet: how conversational agents can help
WS Kwon, V Chattaraman, S Shim... - Human-Computer ..., 2011 - Springer
Using a qualitative study employing a role-playing approach with human agents, this study
identifies the potential roles of conversational agents in enhancing older users' computer
interactions on the Internet in e-commerce environments. Twenty-five participants aged 65 ...
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Interactive rich reading: enhanced book reading experience with a conversational agent
K Mori, R Ballagas, G Revelle, H Raffle... - Proceedings of the 19th ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
Abstract In this work, we introduce Interactive Rich Reading, a new enhanced book
experience designed to run on smartphones and a tablet device. Interactive Rich Reading is
characterized by a video-based conversational agent that asks questions or makes ...
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[PDF] A BML Based Embodied Conversational Agent for a Personality Detection Program
[PDF] from utwente.nlG Solano Méndez... - 2011 - eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl
Solano Méndez, G. and Reidsma, D.(2011) A BML Based Embodied Conversational Agent
for a Personality Detection Program. In: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual
Agents (IVA), 15-17 September 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland. pp. 468-469. Lecture Notes in ...
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[CITATION] Creating Emotional Speech for Conversational Agents
AT Do... - 2011 Workshop on Digital Media and Digital Content ..., 2011 - IEEE
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Animating a conversational agent with user expressivity
[PDF] from it-sudparis.euM Rajagopal, P Horain... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
Our objective is to animate an embodied conversational agent (ECA) with communicative
gestures rendered with the expressivity of a real human user it represents. We describe an
approach to estimate a subset of expressivity parameters defined in the literature (namely ...
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Conversational Agents in Language and Culture Training
A Sagae, WL Johnson... - Conversational Agents and ..., 2011 - igi-global.com
ABSTRACT This chapter describes the design, implementation, and use of an agent
architecture that has been deployed in Alelo, Inc.'s language and culture training systems,
which offer practical training for foreign language skills and intercultural competence. ...
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Oscar: an intelligent adaptive conversational agent tutoring system
A Latham, K Crockett, D McLean... - Agent and Multi-Agent ..., 2011 - Springer
This paper presents an adaptive online intelligent tutoring system called Oscar which leads
a tutoring conversation and dynamically predicts and adapts to a student's learning style.
Oscar aims to mimic a human tutor by using knowledge of learning styles to adapt its ...
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[PDF] Supporting Group Math with Software Conversational Agents
[PDF] from gerrystahl.netG Stahl, CP Rosé, K O'Hara... - Essays in Computer- ..., 2011 - gerrystahl.net
This is a research paper on a new tool to support dynamic mathematics in education. The
research explores the use of software agents to engage in synchronous interaction with a
small group of students working online in the Virtual Math Teams environment. The ...
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Digital Fruits For Lunch: Feeding Embodied Conversational Agents With Wikipedia Knowledge
U Waltinger, A Breuing... - 2011 - pub.uni-bielefeld.de
... Back to previous page. Digital Fruits For Lunch: Feeding Embodied Conversational Agents With
Wikipedia Knowledge. ... 2011. "Digital Fruits For Lunch: Feeding Embodied Conversational Agents
With Wikipedia Knowledge", in: Interdisciplinary College, Course Material. ...
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A flexible dual task paradigm for evaluating an embodied conversational agent: modality effects and reaction time as an index of cognitive load
[PDF] from free.frC Stevens, G Gibert, Y Leung... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
A new experimental method based on the dual task paradigm is used to evaluate speech
intelligibility of an embodied conversational agent (ECA). The experiment consists of the
manipulation of auditory-visual (AV) versus auditory-only (A) presentation of speech. In ...
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Using conversational agents to improve interactions between players and NPCs
PG Drennan - The Australian Game Developers ..., 2011 - espace.library.uq.edu.au
Drennan, PG (2002). Using conversational agents to improve interactions between players
and NPCs. In:, Proceedings of the Australian Game Developers Conference. The Australian
Game Developers Conference (AGDC 2002), Melbourne, Australia,(1-3). 6-8 December, ...
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Affect transfer by metaphor for an intelligent conversational agent
[PDF] from bham.ac.ukA Wallington, R Agerri, J Barnden, M Lee... - Affective Computing and ..., 2011 - Springer
We discuss an aspect of an affect-detection system used in edrama by intelligent
conversational agents, namely affective interpretation of limited sorts of metaphorical
utterance. Our system currently only deals with cases, which we found to be quite common ...
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The EducAgent Platform: Intelligent Conversational Agents for E-Learning Applications
D Griol, J García-Herrero... - Ambient Intelligence-Software and ..., 2011 - Springer
In this paper, we describe a multi-agent system developed for teaching support and
student's self-learning. The main objective of the EducAgent platform is the creation of an
innovative virtual space following the principles of the European Higher Education Area to ...
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A BML based embodied conversational agent for a personality detection program
G Méndez... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
This paper presents a project in which an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) attemtps
to detect the personality of the user by asking him (or her) a series of questions. The project
uses the Elckerlyc platform, a Behavior Markup Language (BML) compliant behavior ...
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MentorChat: Introducing a Configurable Conversational Agent as a Tool for Adaptive Online Collaboration Support
S Tegos, S Demetriadis... - Informatics (PCI), 2011 ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract Research in the field of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has
systematically indicated that providing adaptive support to collaborating students is an
efficient way of improving the outcomes of the collaborative learning activity. In this paper ...
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Making virtual conversational agent aware of the addressee of users' utterances in multi-user conversation using nonverbal information
HH Huang, N Baba... - ... of the 13th international conference on ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
Abstract In multi-user human-agent interaction, the agent should respond to the user when
an utterance is addressed to it. To do this, the agent needs to be able to judge whether the
utterance is addressed to the agent or to another user. This study proposes a method for ...
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Cultural difference in nonverbal behaviors in negotiation conversations: towards a model for culture-adapted conversational agents
F Nori, A Lipi... - ... Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design ..., 2011 - Springer
As the basis of generating nonverbal expressions in animated agents, this paper proposes
factors that account for cultural difference in nonverbal behaviors in negotiation interaction.
First, we introduce theories of negotiation and cultural characteristics. Then, our analysis ...
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Providing gender to embodied conversational agents
M Vala, G Blanco... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
Communication, along with other factors, varies with gender. Significant work as been done
around embodied conversational agents (ECAs) verbal and non-verbal behaviour but
gender issue has often been ignored. Yet, together with personality, culture and other ...
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[PDF] Regulating Dialogue with Gestures-Towards an Empirically Grounded Simulation with Conversational Agents
[PDF] from aclweb.orgK Bergmann, H Rieser... - Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 ..., 2011 - aclweb.org
Abstract Although not very well investigated, a crucial aspect of gesture use in dialogues is
to regulate the organisation of the interaction. People use gestures decisively, for example to
indicate that they want someone to take the turn, to'brush away'what someone else said, ...
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Towards conversational agents that attend to and adapt to communicative user feedback
[PDF] from uni-bielefeld.deH Buschmeier... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
Successful dialogue is based on collaborative efforts of the interactants to ensure mutual
understanding. This paper presents work towards making conversational agents 'attentive
speakers' that continuously attend to the communicative feedback given by their ...
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[PDF] Living with a Virtual Agent: Seven Years with an Embodied Conversational Agent at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
[PDF] from ul.ieT Pfeiffer, C Liguda, I Wachsmuth... - 2011 - idc.ul.ie
Abstract Since 2004 the virtual agent Max is living at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum-a
computer science museum. He is welcoming and entertaining visitors ten hours a day, six
days a week, for seven years. This article brings together the experiences made by the ...
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Conversational agents: Creating natural dialogue between players and non-player characters
PG Drennan - 2011 - espace.library.uq.edu.au
... Conversational agents: Creating natural dialogue between players and non-player characters.
Drennan, PG (2004). Conversational agents: Creating natural dialogue between players and
non-player characters. In Steve Rabin (Ed.), AI Game Programming Wisdom 2 (pp. ...
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Agent Simulation to Develop Interactive and User-Centered Conversational Agents
D Griol, J Carbó... - International Symposium on Distributed ..., 2011 - Springer
In this paper, we present a technique for developing user simulators which are able to
interact and evaluate conversational agents. Our technique is based on a statistical model
that is automatically learned from a dialog corpus. This model is used by the user ...
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Longitudinal Remote Follow-Up by Intelligent Conversational Agents for Post-Hospitalization Care
[PDF] from northeastern.eduLM Pfeifer... - 2011 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2011 - aaai.org
Abstract After a hospitalization, approximately 1 out of 5 patients will suffer from an adverse
event, and one-third of these complications are preventable. Having a pharmacist followup
with patients a few days after leaving the hospital has been shown to significantly reduce ...
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Source orientation in communication with a conversational agent
Y Hayashi, HH Huang, V Kryssanov, A Urao... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2011 - Springer
Do people directly interact with a computer as an independent social actor during simple
conversations, or do they orient to the unseen programmer behind the program or an
imagined person operating from another room? In the former case the CAS (Computers ...
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Architecture for Building Conversational Agents that Support Collaborative Learning
R Kumar... - Learning Technologies, IEEE Transactions ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract Tutorial Dialog Systems that employ Conversational Agents to deliver instructional
content to learners in one-on-one tutoring settings have been shown to be effective in
multiple learning domains by multiple research groups. Our work focuses on extending ...
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Sentic avatar: multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense
E Cambria, I Hupont, A Hussain, E Cerezo... - ... , Adaptive, and Context- ..., 2011 - Springer
The capability of perceiving and expressing emotions through different modalities is a key
issue for the enhancement of human-computer interaction. In this paper we present a novel
architecture for the development of intelligent multimodal affective interfaces. It is based ...
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A Spontaneous Topic Change of Dialogue for Conversational Agent Based on Human Cognition and Memory
S Lim, K Oh... - Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 2011 - Springer
Mixed-initiative interaction (MII) plays an important role for the flexible dialogues in
conversational agent. Since conventional research on MII process dialogues based on the
predefined methodologies, they only provide simple and static dialogues rather than ...
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Extending Conversational Agents for Task-Oriented Human-Computer Dialogue
P Andrews... - Conversational Agents and Natural ..., 2011 - igi-global.com
ABSTRACT We present the role of conversational agents in two task-oriented human-
computer dialogue applications: Interactive Question Answering and Persuasive Dialogue.
We show that conversational agents can be effectively deployed for interaction that goes ...
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[PDF] Building Modular Knowledge Bases for Conversational Agents
[PDF] from liu.seD Macias-Galindo, L Cavedon... - Knowledge and Reasoning ..., 2011 - ida.liu.se
Abstract The process of constructing domain-specific ontologies presents challenges in the
time and human effort required. Although some efforts have been made to automate this
process using hierarchical relations, relatively little has been done on incorporating other ...
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Context-Aware Conversational Agents Using POMDPs and Agenda-Based Simulation
D Griol... - User-Centric Technologies and Applications, 2011 - Springer
Context-aware systems in combination with mobile devices offer new opportunities in the
areas of knowledge representation, natural language processing and intelligent information
retrieval. Our vision is that natural spoken conversation with these devices can eventually ...
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[CITATION] Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices
D Perez-Marin... - 2011 - Information Science Reference
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Humanizing Conversational Agents
JG Amores, P Manchón... - 2011 - igi-global.com
ABSTRACT This chapter describes an eHealth human-like conversational agent called
Maria embedded in the Web page of the Health Department of the Junta de Andalucía in
Spain. Although this implementation is based on a strong theoretical background, a more ...
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A Modular Framework for Versatile Conversational Agent Building
A Augello, M Scriminaci, S Gaglio... - ... Intelligent and Software ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract This paper illustrates a web-based infrastructure of an architecture for
conversational agents equipped with a modular knowledge base. This solution has the
advantage to allow the building of specific modules that deal with particular features of a ...
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Evaluating Humans' Implicit Attitudes towards an Embodied Conversational Agent
A Kiselev, N Abdikeev... - Advances in Neural Networks-ISNN ..., 2011 - Springer
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating embodied conversational agents in terms of
their communicative performance. We show our attempt to evaluate humans' implicit
attitudes towards different kinds of information presenting by embodied conversational ...
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[PDF] Socially Capable Conversational Agents for Multi-Party Interactive Situations
[PDF] from rohitkumar.netR Kumar - 2011 - thesis.rohitkumar.net
Abstract Since the inception of AI research, great strides have been made towards achieving
the goal of extending natural language conversation as a medium of interaction with
machines. Today, we find many Conversational Agents (CAs) situated in various aspects ...
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[PDF] Acceptability in interaction-From robots to Embodied Conversational Agent
[PDF] from archives-ouvertes.frS Pesty, D Duhaut - 2011 - hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
This paper will propose extending the traditional definition of system acceptability to take
into account significant interaction between a man and a real or virtual system. We introduce
the notion of" socially credible" which describes the need of emotions and personality in ...
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[PDF] Enhancement of Conversational Agents by Means of Multimodal Interaction
[PDF] from ugr.esR López-Cózar, Z Callejas, G Espejo... - Conversational Agents and ..., 2011 - ugr.es
ABSTRACT The main objective of multimodal conversational agents is to provide a more
engaged and participative communication by allowing users to employ more than one input
methodologies and providing output channels that are different to exclusively using voice. ...
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Multimodal behavior realization for embodied conversational agents
[PDF] from unizg.hrA Cerekovic... - Multimedia tools and applications, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Applications with intelligent conversational virtual humans, called Embodied
Conversational Agents (ECAs), seek to bring human-like abilities into machines and
establish natural human-computer interaction. In this paper we discuss realization of ECA ...
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Extending an Educational Math Game with a Pedagogical Conversational Agent: Facing Design Challenges
[PDF] from diva-portal.orgB Sjödén, A Silvervarg, M Haake... - ... to Adaptive Learning. A Look at ..., 2011 - Springer
We describe our work-in-progress of developing an educational game in mathematics for 12-
14 year olds, by adding social and conversational abilities to an existing "teachable
agent"(TA) in the game. The purpose of this extension is to affect cognitive, emotional and ...
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Conversational agents in a virtual world
P Adolphs, A Benz, N Castelló, X Cheng... - KI 2011: Advances in ..., 2011 - Springer
This paper presents a system that builds on theoretical and experimental insights from
linguistic pragmatics, uses novel techniques from computational linguistics and combines
them with robust baseline technologies to provide intelligent Non Player Characters ( ...
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[PDF] Affective Conversational Agents
[PDF] from ugr.esZ Callejas, R López-Cózar, N Ábalos... - 2011 - ugr.es
ABSTRACT In this chapter, we revisit the main theories of human emotion and personality
and their implications for the development of affective conversational agents. We focus on
the role that emotion plays for adapting the agents' behaviour and how this emotional ...
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Soft Computing Models for the Development of Commercial Conversational Agents
D Griol, J Carbó... - Soft Computing Models in Industrial and ..., 2011 - Springer
In this paper we present a proposal for the development of conversational agents that, on
the one hand, takes into account the benefits of using standards like VoiceXML, whilst on the
other, includes a module with a soft computing model that avoids the effort of manually ...
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An Agent-Based Dialog Simulation Technique to Develop and Evaluate Conversational Agents
D Griol, N Sánchez-Pi, J Carbó... - Advances on Practical ..., 2011 - Springer
In this paper, we present an agent-based dialog simulation technique for learning new
dialog strategies and evaluate conversational agents. Using this technique the effort
necessary to acquire data required to train the dialog model and then explore new dialog ...
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Towards a conversational agent architecture to favor knowledge discovery in serious games
F Bellotti, R Berta, A De Gloria... - Proceedings of the 8th ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
Abstract" Conversational Agents"(CAs) are virtual characters controlled by the computer and
able to dialogue with users in natural language. CAs are usually employed in virtual world
applications, such as for training, gaming or advertising, in order to increase the situation ...
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Systems Engineering and Conversational Agents
J O'Shea, Z Bandar... - Intelligence-Based Systems ..., 2011 - Springer
This chapter describes Conversational Agents (CAs) in the context of Systems Engineering.
A CA is a computer program which interacts with a user through natural language dialogue
and provides some form of service. CA technology has two points of interest to systems ...
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[PDF] Enhancing the believability of embodied conversational agents through environment-, self-and interaction-awareness
[PDF] from psu.eduK Ijaz, A Bogdanovych... - Proceedings of ACSC, 2011 - Citeseer
Abstract Research on embodied conversational agents' reasoning and actions has mostly
ignored the external environment. This papers argues that believability of such agents is
tightly connected with their ability to relate to the environment during a conversation. This ...
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Bringing Statistical Methodologies for Enterprise Integration of Conversational Agents
D Griol... - Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and ..., 2011 - Springer
In this paper we present a methodology to develop commercial conversational agents that
avoids the effort of manually defining the dialog strategy for the dialog management module.
Our corpus-based methodology is based on selecting the next system answer by means ...
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Goal orientated conversational agents: applications to benefit society
K Crockett, JO 'Shea... - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: ..., 2011 - Springer
Goal-orientated Conversational Agents are a specific family of conversational agents that
are designed to converse with humans through the use of natural language dialogue to
achieve a specific task. Traditionally, they utilise pattern matching algorithms to capture ...
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"I Like Your Shirt"-Dialogue Acts for Enabling Social Talk in Conversational Agents
T Klüwer - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
This paper presents a set of dialogue acts which can be used to implement small talk
conversations in conversational agents. Although many conversational agents are
supposed to engage in small talk, no systematic development of social dialogue acts and ...
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Using embodied conversational agents in video games to investigate emotional facial expressions
M Lankes... - Entertainment Computing, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract The perception of emotional facial expressions has been diligently studied in
psychology for the last 40 years. The stimuli mainly used in these studies were photos or
short film clips. Today, video games and their development frameworks allow researchers ...
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[PDF] Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Conversational Agents in Learning Environments for Young Teenagers
[PDF] from liu.seA Silvervarg... - ... and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, 2011 - ida.liu.se
Abstract In this paper we present results from a study of subjective and objective evaluation
metrics used to asses a conversational agent. Our study has been conducted in a school
setting with students, aged 12 to 14 years old, who used a virtual learning environment ...
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Affect bartender-affective cues and their application in a conversational agent
M Skowron... - IEEE Symposium Series on ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract-This paper presents methods for the detection of textual expressions of users'
affective states and explores an application of these affective cues in a conversational
system-Affect Bartender. We also describe the architecture of the system, core system ...
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[PDF] An embodied conversational agent with asperger syndrome
[PDF] from sun.ac.zaL Van Zijl... - 2011 - cs.sun.ac.za
Abstract: We discuss the development of an embodied conversational agent with Asperger-
like communication skills. The agent was developed for use in educational software in a
virtual environment specifically aimed at autism spectrum disorder software. We describe ...
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Design and Implementation Issues for Convincing Conversational Agents
M Löckelt - Conversational Agents and Natural Language ..., 2011 - igi-global.com
ABSTRACT This chapter describes a selection of experiences from designing and
implementing virtual conversational characters for multimodal dialogue systems. It uses
examples from the large interactive narrative VirtualHuman and some related systems of ...
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Building rapport with a 3D conversational agent
W Cade, A Olney, P Hays... - Affective Computing and Intelligent ..., 2011 - Springer
While embodied conversational agents improve a user's experience with a system, systems
meant for repeated use may need agents that build a relationship with the user. Anita is a
low-cost 3D agent capable of talking, displaying emotions, gesturing, and postural mimicry ...
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Future Trends for Conversational Agents
D Pérez-Marín... - Conversational Agents and ..., 2011 - igi-global.com
ABSTRACT In the last decades, there has been a great evolution in the field of
Conversational Agents. Currently, there are agents to assist the navigation in Web pages,
support elder users when interacting with some computer application to remind them ...
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Virtual Agents for Human Communication: Emotion Regulation and Involvement-Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents and Robots
[PDF] from vu.nlMA Pontier - 2011 - dspace.ubvu.vu.nl
Er is een groeiende interesse in het ontwikkeling van embodied conversational agents
(ECAs) en robots. Ze kunnen spelletjes interessanter maken, eenzame mensen gezelschap
houden, online instructies aantrekkelijker maken, en gebruikt worden voor coaching en ...
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Individualized Gesture Production in Embodied Conversational Agents
S Kopp... - 2011 - pub.uni-bielefeld.de
... Back to previous page. Individualized Gesture Production in Embodied Conversational Agents. ...
2011. "Individualized Gesture Production in Embodied Conversational Agents", in: M. Zacarias,
& JV de Oliveira (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective. ...
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Special-Purpose, Embodied Conversational Intelligence with Environmental Sensors (SPECIES) Agents: Implemented in an Automated Interviewing Kiosk
DC Derrick - 2011 - arizona.openrepository.com
... Similarly, smiling agents were perceived as more likable than neutral demeanor agents. The
fourth study assessed how incorporating impression management techniques into embodied
conversational agents can influence human perceptions of the system (88 participants). ...
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Pedagogic Conversational Agents. It is focused on the open issues in
PCA PCAs - 2011 - ceur-ws.org
The benefits of the personalization and adaptation of computer applications to each user
have been widely reported in recent decades. Educational applications are not an
exception, both in e-learning, ie the use of electronic media to teach or assess, and in b- ...
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Patterns of Synchronization of Non-verbal Cues and Speech in ECAs: Towards a More "Natural" Conversational Agent
N Rossini - Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware ..., 2011 - Springer
This paper presents an analysis of the verbal and non-verbal cues of Conversational
Agents, with a special focus on REA and GRETA, in order to allow further research aimed at
correcting some traits of their performance still considered unnatural by their final users. ...
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[PDF] IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AFFECTIVE CONVERSATIONAL AGENT FOR CONTROLLING A HI-FI SYSTEM
[PDF] from upm.esJJS GUADA - lorien.die.upm.es
The purpose of this work is the design, development, and adaptation of an emotional model
to be used in a dialogue system that provides several functions from speech recognition.
The main goal is to improve the existing dialogue system by adding new features related ...
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Feedback presentation for physical activity coaching: by an embodied conversational agent or by a simple e-mail?
[PDF] from utwente.nlA Wiekens - 2011 - essay.utwente.nl
Abstract:" In this study we compare two ways to present feedback by a digital coaching
system that helps clients to improve or sustain their physical activity level in daily life. One
way is by means of a simple e-mail sent to the user; the other way is by means of an ...
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[PDF] From Semantic Web Knowledge To A Functional Conversational Agent: A Practical Approach
[PDF] from airtudor.comTA Dobrila - airtudor.com
Abstract. This paper describes a practical approach for enhancing a language independent
conversational agent for question answering using Semantic Web knowledge. Our main
contribution is the scalable, cascadetype architecture, divided into several components. ...
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[PDF] The feasibility of using conversational agent technology to improve problem-solving and coping skills of young adults with cancer
[PDF] from dovepress.comFJ Meyers - dovepress.com
Objective: Young adults with cancer have unique psychosocial needs and often lack the
problem-solving and coping skills for effective resolution. We conducted a study to clarify
these needs and then developed and tested an educational intervention to coach young ...
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[PDF] Speech Driven Animation For Conversational Agents
[PDF] from ed.ac.ukDA Braude - 2011 - homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk
A conversational agent that could fool someone into believing it was human has been a
research goal since Alan Turing proposed the problem in 1950. This encompasses one part
of the problem of making a true artificial intelligence: Communication. The Loebner Prize ...
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[PDF] Embodied Conversational Agents for Education in Autism
[PDF] from intechopen.comM Milne, M Luerssen, T Lewis, R Leibbrandt... - intechopen.com
Individuals with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome find everyday social
interactions very challenging due to their impairments in language, communication and
social skills (Rapin & Tuchman, 2008). As their IQ scores are in the average and above ...
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AVATAR: An Open Source Architecture for Embodied Conversational Agents in Smart Environments
M Santos-Pérez, E González-Parada... - Ambient Assisted ..., 2011 - Springer
Due to a growing older population, researchers and industry are paying more attention to
the needs of this group of people. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) aims to help people in their
daily lives, achieving a more natural interaction of users with an electronic home ...
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[PDF] Personification of topics with conversational agents
[PDF] from limsi.frJP Sansonnet, F Bouchet... - limsi.fr
ABSTRACT Nowadays, ordinary people can freely access a large amount of information
through Internet. Then issues of production and transport of computational entities are
superseded by new requirements like: enticement, acceptability and understanding. To ...
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[PS] Knowledge Intensive Conversational Agents: a Logic Programming Approach
[PS] from imamu.edu.saP Tarau... - imamu.edu.sa
Abstract. We describe an architecture for building conversational agents, deployed as self-
contained Web services, with ability to provide highperformance inference processing on
very large knowledge bases. We integrate a number of logic programming components ...
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Agent for Interactive Student Assistance: A Study of an Avatar-Based Conversational Agent's Impact on Student Engagement and Recruitment at BGSU's College of ...
SL Orwick Ogden - 2011 - rave.ohiolink.edu
Abstract As the need for educating traditional and non-traditional students increases and
budgets decrease, the demand for higher education institutions to implement creative ways
to provide effective customer service to students has never been more critical.
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Expressive multimodal conversational acts for SAIBA agents
J Riviere, C Adam, S Pesty, C Pelachaud... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2011 - Springer
... In: Proc. of AAMAS 2011 (2011) 6. Lee, J., Marsella, S.: Nonverbal behavior generator for
embodied conversational agents. ... Springer, Heidelberg (2009) 10. Poggi, I., Pelachaud, C., de
Rosis, F., Carofiglio, V., Carolis, BD: Greta: A be- lievable embodied conversational agent. ...
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Integrating Psychological Behaviors in the Rational Process of Conversational Assistant Agents
[PDF] from vorty.netJP Sansonnet... - Twenty-Fourth International FLAIRS ..., 2011 - aaai.org
... Conversational agents (Cassell et al. ... Most conversational agents are given a personality
and are hence supposed to interact with people according to the character they endorse:
social role, personality traits, mental prefer- ences, affects and moods. ...
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[PDF] Building a Social Conversational Pedagogical Agent
[PDF] from veletsianos.comA Gulz, M Haake, A Silvervarg, B Sjoden... - 2011 - veletsianos.com
... 130 Building a Social Conversational Pedagogical Agent course not exhaustive or applicable
to all peda- gogical conversational agent projects. Still, we consider them as representative of
main issues that are likely to occur when developing pedagogical conversational agents. ...
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[PDF] AGENT FOR INTERACTIVE STUDENT ASSISTANCE: A STUDY OF AN AVATAR-BASED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT'S IMPACT ON STUDENT ...
[PDF] from ohiolink.eduSO Ogden - 2011 - etd.ohiolink.edu
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A multi-expert model for dialogue and behavior control of conversational robots and agents
M Nakano, Y Hasegawa, K Funakoshi... - Knowledge-Based ..., 2011 - Elsevier
... employed if it conforms to the interface. This feature makes the model extensible.
Keywords: Conversational robot; Conversational agent; Robot intelligence; Behavior
and dialogue control; Multi-expert model. Article Outline. ...
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