This paper addresses the issue of designing embodied conversational agents that exhibit appropriate posture shifts during dialogues with human users. Previous research has noted t...
Justine Cassell, Yukiko I. Nakano, Timothy W. Bick...
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...
Spoken multimodal dialogue systems in which users address faceonly or embodied interface agents have been gaining ground in research for some time. Although most systems are still...
The perception of feeling cared for has beneficial consequences in education, psychotherapy, and medicine. Results from a longitudinal study of simulated caring by a computer are ...
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...