In Virtual Environments (VE), users are often facing tasks that involve direct manipulation of virtual objects at close distances, such as touching, grabbing, placement. In immers...
Andrei Sherstyuk, Arindam Dey, Christian Sandor, A...
Using Web information in example-based dialogue systems is considered to be a good way to increase the topical relevance of system responses. However, Web content is mostly written...
We present the situated reference generation module of a hybrid human-robot interaction system that collaborates with a human user in assembling target objects from a wooden toy c...
Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Col...
We present a novel Text-to-Picture system that synthesizes a picture from general, unrestricted natural language text. The process is analogous to Text-to-Speech synthesis, but wi...
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Mohamed Eldawy, C...
: In December of 2010, the new game CityVille achieved 6 million daily active users in just 8 days. Clearly the success of CityVille owes something to the fun gameplay experience i...