Recent debate has centered on the relative promise of focusing user-interface research on developing new metaphors and tools that enhance users’ abilities to directly manipulate...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like computer generated characters that interact with human users in face-to-face multi-modal conversations. ECA systems are general...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Toyoaki Nishida, Aleksandra Cere...
Computational models of motivation are tools that artificial agents can use to autonomously identify, prioritize, and select the goals they will pursue. Previous research has focu...
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
The extension of our research on analysis of a single agent or agent communities combining advanced methods of visualization with traditional AI techniques is presented in this pa...