We aim at creating Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) able to communicate multimodally with a user or with other ECAs. In this paper we focus on the Gestural Mind Markers, that ...
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common groun...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, Just...
This study examines the acceptance and usability of an animated conversational agent designed to establish longterm relationships with older, mostly minority adult users living in...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lisa Caruso, Kerri Clough-Gor...
When we construct an agent by integrating modules, there appear troubles concerning the autonomy of the agent if we introduce a heuristics that dominates the whole agent. Thus, we ...
In this paper, we describe our experience with the design and implementation of an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that converses with users in order to change their dietary b...
Fiorella de Rosis, Nicole Novielli, Valeria Carofi...