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AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor
Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the inte...
Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Ma...
SG
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Highly Realistic 3D Presentation Agents with Visual Attention Capability
This research proposes 3D graphical agents in the role of virtual presenters with a new type of functionality – the capability to process and respond to visual attention of users...
Arjen Hoekstra, Helmut Prendinger, Nikolaus Bee, D...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Emotional reading of medical texts using conversational agents
In this paper, we present a prototype that helps visualizing the relative importance of sentences extracted from medical texts using Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA). We propo...
Gersende Georg, Catherine Pelachaud, Marc Cavazza
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The effect of affective iconic realism on anonymous interactants' self-disclosure
In this paper, we describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of avatars' visual fidelity and users' anticipated future interaction o...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, James H. Watt