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IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Making It Personal: End-User Authoring of Health Narratives Delivered by Virtual Agents
We describe a design study in which five different tools are compared for end-user authoring of personal stories to be told by an embodied conversational agent. The tools provide v...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lazlo Ring
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Individualized Gesturing Outperforms Average Gesturing - Evaluating Gesture Production in Virtual Humans
Abstract. How does a virtual agent’s gesturing behavior influence the user’s perception of communication quality and the agent’s personality? This question was investigated ...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp, Friederike Eyssel
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Using Virtual Humans to Bootstrap the Creation of Other Virtual Humans
Virtual human (VH) experiences are increasingly used for training interpersonal skills such as military leadership, classroom education, and doctor-patient interviews. These divers...
Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
The Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Congruity on Persuasion by Conversational Agents
We present an empirical study on the impact of linguistic and cultural tailoring of a conversational agent on its ability to change user attitudes. We designed two bilingual (Engli...
Langxuan Yin, Timothy W. Bickmore, Dharma E. Cort&...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
How a Virtual Agent Should Smile? - Morphological and Dynamic Characteristics of Virtual Agent's Smiles
A smile may communicate different meanings depending on subtle characteristics of the facial expression. In this article, we have studied the morphological and dynamic characteris...
Magalie Ochs, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pel...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Using Artificial Team Members for Team Training in Virtual Environments
In a good team, members do not only perform their individual task, they also coordinate their actions with other members of the team. Developing such team skills usually involves e...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Tijmen Muller, Karel van de...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Constraints-Based Complex Behavior in Rich Environments
Jan M. Allbeck, Hadas Kress-Gazit
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development
Conversational modeling requires an extended time commitment, and the difficulty associated with capturing the wide range of conversational stimuli necessitates extended user parti...
Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Ben...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Smart Events and Primed Agents
We describe a new organization for virtual human responses to dynamically occurring events. In our approach behavioral responses are enumerated in the representation of the event i...
Catherine Stocker, Libo Sun, Pengfei Huang, Wenhu ...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
The Influence of Emotions in Embodied Agents on Human Decision-Making
Acknowledging the social functions that emotions serve, there has been growing interest in the interpersonal effect of emotion in human decision making. Following the paradigm of e...
Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, Jonathan Gratch