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KI
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
SceneMaker: Automatic Visualisation of Screenplays
Abstract. Our proposed software system, SceneMaker, aims to facilitate the production of plays, films or animations by automatically interpreting natural language film scripts an...
Eva Hanser, Paul McKevitt, Tom Lunney, Joan Condel...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
IVA
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Searching for Prototypical Facial Feedback Signals
Embodied conversational agents should be able to provide feedback on what a human interlocutor is saying. We are compiling a list of facial feedback expressions that signal attenti...
Dirk Heylen, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Marion Tellier, ...
ICMI
2005
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A first evaluation study of a database of kinetic facial expressions (DaFEx)
In this paper we present DaFEx (Database of Facial Expressions), a database created with the purpose of providing a benchmark for the evaluation of the facial expressivity of Embo...
Alberto Battocchi, Fabio Pianesi, Dina Goren-Bar
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 6 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...