Spatial scaffolding is a naturally occurring human teaching behavior, in which teachers use their bodies to spatially structure the learning environment to direct the attention of...
Given a specification of communication rules in a multiagent system (in the form of protocols, ACL semantics, etc.), the question of how to design appropriate agents that can oper...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, ...
Helmut Prendinger, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishiz...
Service-oriented systems are becoming more and more nodes in a digital, dynamic ecosystem requiring the identification and establishment of flexible, spontaneous collaboration act...