Legitimacy is a key part of the social requirements specification for a trusted virtual community environment (VCE). If an environment is not seen as legitimate, social conflicts m...
Role coordination is an important aspect of task performance in teams. This phenomenon has received little attention in global virtual teams (GVT) with their coordination hurdles....
Abstract. During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfa...
This paper introduces a new application area for agents in the computer interface: the support of human-human interaction. We discuss an interface agent prototype that is designed...
The Internet as a medium for communication and information distribution has opened up new opportunities for distance education programs. Not only is the scope of a program, in ter...