HANDS is a new programming system for children that was designed for usability. This paper examines the effectiveness of three features of HANDS: queries, aggregate operations, an...
Commitments model important aspects of agent interactions, especially those arising in e-business. A small number of patterns of commitments accommodate a variety of realistic int...
The design and development of social robots that interact and assist people in daily life requires moving into unconstrained daily-life environments. This presents unexplored meth...
Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenbe...
As we move forward towards the next generation of wireless protocols, the push for a better radio physical layer is ever increasing. Conventional radio architectures are limited t...
Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. ...
The Wizard of Oz (WOz) technique is an experimental evaluation mechanism. It allows the observation of a user operating an apparently fully functioning system whose missing service...