: We report on a new kind of culturally-authentic embodied conversational agent more in line with the ways that culture and ethnicity function in the real world. On the basis of th...
In this paper we describe the design of a relational agent interface for handheld computers and the results of a study exploring the effectiveness of different useragent interacti...
We discuss the design of the Intermediary Agent's brain, the control module of an embodied conversational virtual peer in a simulation game aimed at providing learning experi...
In this paper, we present a Web-based framework for interactive deictic and sign language virtual agents. Our framework is a DOM-Integrated Virtual Agents architecture, which has b...
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 ...