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ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Agent Competence on User Performance and Perception
We studied the role of the competence of an interface agent that helped users to learn and use a text editor. Participants in the study made a set of changes to a document with th...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Performance Comparison of Landmark Recognition Systems for Navigating Mobile Robots
Self-localisation is an essential competence for mobile robot navigation. Due to the fundamental unreliability of dead reckoning, a robot must depend on its perception of external...
Tom Duckett, Ulrich Nehmzow
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
TVCG
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Visual Perception and Mixed-Initiative Interaction for Assisted Visualization Design
This paper describes the integration of perceptual guidelines from human vision with an AI-based mixed-initiative search strategy. The result is a visualization assistant called Vi...
Christopher G. Healey, Sarat Kocherlakota, Vivek R...