From the beginnings of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) and the definition of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Web site administrators have used dynamically generated HTML page...
The increasing diffusion of ubiquitous communication infrastructures and physical active objects --like sensors and smart tags-- is motivating the integration of these devices int...
Luciano Baresi, Paolo Beretta, Roberto Fraccapani,...
—Smart Homes and Domotic Environments are promising to revolutionize the daily human life providing users with increased care, adaptability and safety. However, to fully exploit ...
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
Despite its widespread use, voicemail presents numerous usability challenges: People must listen to messages in their entirety, they cannot search by keywords, and audio files do ...