Drawing on existing design approaches, this paper argues for the experiential desirability and critical importance--in terms of environmental sustainability-of designing for refle...
The beliefs of an agent reflecting her subjective view of the world constitute one of the main components of a BDI agent. In order to incorporate new information coming from other...
We are developing a preventative health cell phone application that helps motivate teenage girls to exercise by exploiting their social desire to stay connected with their peers. ...
Tammy Toscos, Anne M. Faber, Shunying An, Mona Pra...
Compelling synthetic characters must behave in ways that reflect their past experience and thus allow for individual personalization. We therefore need a method that allows charac...
Song-Yee Yoon, Robert C. Burke, Bruce Blumberg, Ge...
This special issue describes a number of applications that utilize lifelike characters that teach indirectly, by playing some role in a social interaction with a user. The design ...