: We report about ongoing research in a virtual reality environment where visitors can interact with agents that help them to obtain information, to peform certain transactions and...
Due to the profile of strengths and weaknesses indicative of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), technology may play a key role in ameliorating communication difficulties with this p...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Karrie Karahalios, James Halle...
Existing knowledge on how people use speech-based technologies in realistic settings is limited. We are conducting a longitudinal field study, spanning six months, to investigate ...
Jinjuan Feng, Shaojian Zhu, Ruimin Hu, Andrew Sear...
Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore
Crowd simulation models are currently lacking a commonly accepted validation method. In this paper, we propose level of presence achieved by a human in a virtual environment (VE) ...
Nuria Pelechano, Catherine Stocker, Jan M. Allbeck...