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AAI
2010
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14 years 9 months ago
Maintaining engagement in Long-Term Interventions with Relational Agents
We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications which require long-term voluntary use, and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin
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
ILP
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Learning Relational Options for Inductive Transfer in Relational Reinforcement Learning
In reinforcement learning problems, an agent has the task of learning a good or optimal strategy from interaction with his environment. At the start of the learning task, the agent...
Tom Croonenborghs, Kurt Driessens, Maurice Bruynoo...
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IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting User Psychological Characteristics from Interactions with Empathetic Virtual Agents
Enabling virtual agents to quickly and accurately infer users’ psychological characteristics such as their personality could support a broad range of applications in education, t...
Jennifer L. Robison, Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. Mc...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Software Agents and User Autonomy
: Software agents comprise a new area for research and soon will be embedded and ubiquitous in modern computing systems. In this formative phase, it is important to develop compreh...
Batya Friedman, Helen Nissenbaum