This study examines the acceptance and usability of an animated conversational agent designed to establish longterm relationships with older, mostly minority adult users living in...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lisa Caruso, Kerri Clough-Gor...
Information sharing is a key objective in the age of Internet and virtual communities. Reputation information is an important part of a user’s identity and is both a sensitive a...
Tal Grinshpoun, Nurit Gal-Oz, Amnon Meisels, Ehud ...
Abstract. Recent sensor technologies have enabled the capture of users’ behavior data. Given the large amount of data currently available from sensor-equipped environments, it is...
We propose an umbrella-like device called Funbrella that entertains people with many types of rain by focusing on an umbrella as a user interface that connects humans and rain. Ge...
Kazuyuki Fujita, Yuichi Itoh, Ai Yoshida, Maya Oza...
In this paper, we describe results from the experiments of a location-dependent shared virtual world system applied to sightseeing entertainment. This system can be used with GPSp...