A growing number of applications seek to incorporate automatically generated narrative structure into interactive virtual environments. In this paper, we evaluate a representation...
In this paper we propose a new technique for robust keyword spotting that uses bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural nets to incorporate contextual informa...
Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
— Exploratory activities seem to be crucial for our cognitive development. According to psychologists, exploration is an intrinsically rewarding behaviour. The developmental robo...
: We report on a new kind of culturally-authentic embodied conversational agent more in line with the ways that culture and ethnicity function in the real world. On the basis of th...