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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Designing empathic computers: the effect of multimodal empathic feedback using animated agent
Experiencing emotional distress is the number one reason why people who are undergoing behaviour modification (e.g. quitting smoking, dieting) suffer from relapses. Providing emot...
Hien Nguyen, Judith Masthoff
ACII
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Affective Composites: Autonomy and Proxy in Pedagogical Agent Networks
This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...
Eric R. Hamilton
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Trackside DEIRA: a dynamic engaging intelligent reporter agent
DEIRA is a virtual agent commenting on virtual horse races in real time. DEIRA analyses the state of the race, acts emotionally and comments about the situation in a believable an...
François L. A. Knoppel, Almer S. Tigelaar, ...