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