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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
CANDC
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Visualization and empowerment
Data visualization, commonly used to make large sets of numerical data more legible, also has enormous potential as a storytelling tool to elicit insights on long-standing social ...
Indhira Rojas, Wendy Ju
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
220views Robotics» more  ROMAN 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Embodiment and Human-Robot Interaction: A Task-Based Perspective
— In this work, we further test the hypothesis that physical embodiment has a measurable effect on performance and impression of social interactions. Support for this hypothesis ...
Joshua Wainer, David Feil-Seifer, Dylan A. Shell, ...
AIED
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
MathGirls: Toward Developing Girls' Positive Attitude and Self-Efficacy through Pedagogical Agents
MathGirls is a pedagogical-agent-based environment designed for high-school girls learning introductory algebra. Since females are in general more interested in interactive computi...
Yanghee Kim, Quan Wei, Beijie Xu, Youngah Ko, Vess...
IMC
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Measuring the mixing time of social graphs
Social networks provide interesting algorithmic properties that can be used to bootstrap the security of distributed systems. For example, it is widely believed that social networ...
Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Aaram Yun, Yongdae Kim