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HCI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Social Practice: Becoming Enculturated in Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract. We present a new approach to the design, development and evaluation of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) that allows them to index identity through culturally and soc...
Justine Cassell
ERCIMDL
2004
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Towards a Policy Language for Humans and Computers
Abstract. A policy is a statement that an action is permitted or forbidden if certain conditions hold. We introduce a language for reasoning about policies called Rosetta. What mak...
Vicky Weissman, Carl Lagoze
JCDL
2003
ACM
145views Education» more  JCDL 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic Disambiguation of Latin Abbreviations in Early Modern Texts for Humanities Digital Libraries
Early modern books written in Latin contain many abbreviations of common words that are derived from earlier manuscript practice. While these abbreviations are usually easily deci...
Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox
ERCIMDL
2003
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Document-Centered Collaboration for Scholars in the Humanities - The COLLATE System
Abstract. In contrast to electronic document collections we find in contemporary digital libraries, systems applied in a cultural domain have to satisfy specific requirements wit...
Ingo Frommholz, Holger Brocks, Ulrich Thiel, Erich...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Investigating the Effects of Social Goals in a Negotiation Game with Virtual Humans
Educational games may be particularly suited to teaching social learning skills with virtual humans. We investigate the importance of social goals and engaging social interactions ...
Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Christopher Jones