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CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Towards caring machines
The perception of feeling cared for has beneficial consequences in education, psychotherapy, and medicine. Results from a longitudinal study of simulated caring by a computer are ...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Rosalind W. Picard
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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 22 days ago
The comforting presence of relational agents
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman