: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
A long-standing challenge in interactive entertainment is the creation of story-based games with dynamically responsive story-lines. Such games are populated by multiple objects a...
Mark J. Nelson, David L. Roberts, Charles Lee Isbe...
A number of recent studies have demonstrated that groups benefit considerably from access to shared visual information. This is due, in part, to the communicative efficiencies pro...
The data stream captured by recording inhabitantdevice interactions in an environment can be mined to discover significant patterns, which an intelligent agent could use to automa...
: Whereas sophisticated computer users can exercise more control in what they are exposed to and produce computational artifacts, technologically challenged end-users assume a more...