Users of mobile tour guides often express a strong desire for the system to be able to provide information on arbitrary objects they encounter during their visit – akin to point...
Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst, Alan J. Dix, Andre H...
Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully deployed over the years to compute predictions on items based on a user's correlation with a set of peers. The black-box na...
Barry Smyth, Brynjar Gretarsson, John O'Donovan, S...
Human behavior and housing resist every standardization effort. Many aspects such as different technical equipment, furniture, and usage patterns make our surroundings as individu...
Torben Weis, Marcus Handte, Mirko Knoll, Christian...
: Due to technological advances, wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) are becoming quite popular. However, it seems as if none of the existing applications fully exploits th...
Ralf Salomon, Holger Harms, Frank Reichenbach, Tho...
In this paper we describe Lokutor, a virtual human. Lokutor is a partially autonomous agent, inhabiting a 3D virtual environment. The agent can be controlled via natural language ...