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AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Can Virtual Human Build Rapport and Promote Learning?
Research show that teacher's nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student's cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of ...
Ning Wang, Jonathan Gratch
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Can Virtual Humans Be More Engaging Than Real Ones?
: Emotional bonds don’t arise from a simple exchange of facial displays, but often emerge through the dynamic give and take of face-to-face interactions. This article explores th...
Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Fr...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Adaptive expressiveness: virtual conversational agents that can align to their interaction partner
Speakers in dialogue tend to adapt to each other by starting to use similar lexical items, syntactic structures, or gestures. This behaviour, called alignment, may serve important...
Hendrik Buschmeier, Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Human-Currency Interaction: learning from virtual currency use in China
What happens when the domains of HCI design and money intersect? This paper presents analyses from an ethnographic study of virtual currency use in China to discuss implications f...
Scott D. Mainwaring, Yang Wang 0005
RAS
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Virtual sensors for human concepts - Building detection by an outdoor mobile robot
Abstract— In human-robot communication it is often important to relate robot sensor readings to concepts used by humans. We suggest to use a virtual sensor (one or several physic...
Martin Persson, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilienthal