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CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Authorable virtual peers for children with autism
For my dissertation, I am designing, implementing and evaluating the use of a new kind of "authorable" virtual peer that allows children with autism to learn about recip...
Andrea Tartaro
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The comforting presence of relational agents
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
HCI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Social Practice: Becoming Enculturated in Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract. We present a new approach to the design, development and evaluation of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) that allows them to index identity through culturally and soc...
Justine Cassell
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...