Electronic conversations often seem less polite than spoken conversations. The usual explanation for this is that people who are not physically copresent become depersonalized and...
— These days VLSC (Very Large-Scale Conversation) is a particular type of online conversation, that is large scale, public, text-based, many-to-many and persistent. The nature of...
We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when in...
Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Vasco Thudichum Va...
We propose a method that uses the participants’ head orientation and utterances for automatically identifying the addressee of each utterance in face-to-face multiparty conversa...
Abstract. In this paper we present a model of facial behaviour encompassing interpersonal relations for an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA). Although previous solutions of this ...