When we start to engage machines in conversation, what language will it be? While natural language is our preferred means of communication, natural language processing is by no mea...
Three key components of an autonomous intelligent system are planning, execution, and learning. This paper describes how the Soar architecture supports planning, execution, and le...
We demonstrate a "Companion" ECA, which is able to provide advice and support to the user, taking into account emotions expressed by her through dialogue. The integratio...
Marc Cavazza, Raul Santos de la Camara, Markku Tur...
Animated pedagogical agents that inhabit interactive learning environments can exhibit strikingly lifelike behaviors. In addition to providing problem-solving advice in response t...
James C. Lester, Sharolyn A. Converse, Susan H. Ka...
Synchrony is claimed by psychology as a crucial parameter of any social interaction: to give to human a feeling of natural interaction, a feeling of agency [17], an agent must be a...