There is a growing need for creating life-like virtual human simulations that can conduct a natural spoken dialog with a human student on a predefined subject. We present an over...
Anton Leuski, Jarrell Pair, David R. Traum, Peter ...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
The central research issue addressed by this paper is how we can design computer interfaces that better support human attention and better maintain the fluency of work. To accompl...
Beverly L. Harrison, Gordon Kurtenbach, Kim J. Vic...
In this paper, we introduce the concept of "user policies" and its applications to the browsing of HTML documents. The objective of policies is to specify user preferenc...
A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a user to retrieve a data item of its choice from a database, such that the servers storing the database do not gain informat...