Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
A significant goal in multi-modal virtual agent research is to determine how to vary expressive qualities of a character so that it is perceived in a desired way. The "Big Fiv...
Michael Neff, Yingying Wang, Rob Abbott, Marilyn A...
Conversational modeling requires an extended time commitment, and the difficulty associated with capturing the wide range of conversational stimuli necessitates extended user parti...
Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Ben...
Embodied Conversational Agents have typically been constructed for use in limited domain applications, and tested in very specialized environments. Only in recent years have there...
Susan Robinson, David R. Traum, Midhun Ittycheriah...
The amount of data published on the Semantic Web has witnessed a tremendous growth in the last years to which the Linked Open Data (LOD) project has contributed significantly. Whil...