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AIED
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Motivating Learners by Nurturing Animal Companions: My-Pet and Our-Pet
This paper reports a pilot study of how to utilize simulated animal companions to encourage students to pay more effort in their study in the classroom environment. A class of stud...
Zhi-Hong Chen, Yi-Chan Deng, Chih-Yueh Chou, Tak-W...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, André Pe...
ICIA
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Why and How to Model Multi-Modal Interaction for a Mobile Robot Companion
Verbal and non-verbal interaction capabilities for robots are often studied isolated from each other in current research trend because they largely contribute to different aspects...
Shuyin Li, Britta Wrede
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context
This paper presents the combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject. Two live Human Robo...
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Sarah Wood...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Learning empathy: a data-driven framework for modeling empathetic companion agents
Affective reasoning plays an increasingly important role in cognitive accounts of social interaction. Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify the...
Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester