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AGS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing Embodied Conversational Agents with Social and Emotional Capabilities
In this paper we present our current work on an embodied conversational agent for training medical bad news conversations and discuss the inspiration gained from previous work of o...
Bart van Straalen, Dirk Heylen, Mariët Theune...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Social role awareness in animated agents
This paper promotes social role awareness as a desirable capability of animated agents, that are by now strong affective reasoners, but otherwise often lack the social competence ...
Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
CACM
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Embodied Conversational Interface Agents+
People engage in small talk and conversational storytelling to provide information in engaging ways and to serve interpersonal goals such as building rapport and credibility. Embo...
Justine Cassell
HICSS
2005
IEEE
143views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent
In our paper last year [1], we described our languagetraining program, which utilizes Baldi as a tutor, who guides students through a variety of exercises designed to teach vocabu...
Dominic W. Massaro, Slim Ouni, Michael M. Cohen, R...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The comforting presence of relational agents
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman