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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...