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IUI
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Coherent Gestures, Locomotion, and Speech in Life-like Pedagogical Agents
Life-likeanimatedinterfaceagentsforknowledge-basedlearning environments can provide timely, customized advice to support students’ problem solving. Because of their strong visua...
Stuart G. Towns, Jennifer L. Voerman, Charles B. C...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Making It Personal: End-User Authoring of Health Narratives Delivered by Virtual Agents
We describe a design study in which five different tools are compared for end-user authoring of personal stories to be told by an embodied conversational agent. The tools provide v...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lazlo Ring
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Individualized Gesturing Outperforms Average Gesturing - Evaluating Gesture Production in Virtual Humans
Abstract. How does a virtual agent’s gesturing behavior influence the user’s perception of communication quality and the agent’s personality? This question was investigated ...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp, Friederike Eyssel
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating models of speaker head nods for virtual agents
Virtual human research has often modeled nonverbal behaviors based on the findings of psychological research. In recent years, however, there have been growing efforts to use auto...
Jina Lee, Zhiyang Wang, Stacy Marsella
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Mechanism design and deliberative agents
The central mechanism design problem is to develop incentives for agents to truthfully reveal their preferences over different outcomes, so that the system-wide outcome chosen by ...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm