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AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
AgentSalon: facilitating face-to-face knowledge exchange through conversations among personal agents
This paper presents a system called AgentSalon, which facilitates face-to-face knowledge exchange and discussion by people having shared interests, in museums, schools, offices, a...
Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase
IVA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Breaking the Ice in Human-Agent Communication: Eye-Gaze Based Initiation of Contact with an Embodied Conversational Agent
In human-human conversation, the first impression decides whether two people feel attracted by each other and whether contact between them will be continued or not. Starting from ...
Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth André and Susanne Tober
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 hour ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
LREC
2008
118views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
What would you Ask a conversational Agent? Observations of Human-Agent Dialogues in a Museum Setting
Embodied Conversational Agents have typically been constructed for use in limited domain applications, and tested in very specialized environments. Only in recent years have there...
Susan Robinson, David R. Traum, Midhun Ittycheriah...
ICMI
2010
Springer
160views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Facilitating multiparty dialog with gaze, gesture, and speech
We study how synchronized gaze, gesture and speech rendered by an embodied conversational agent can influence the flow of conversations in multiparty settings. We review a computa...
Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz