In this paper we propose an XML-based markup language, called XSTEP, for embodied agents, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is the XML-based successor of STEP. The scrip...
Acknowledging the social functions that emotions serve, there has been growing interest in the interpersonal effect of emotion in human decision making. Following the paradigm of e...
Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, Jonathan Gratch
The combination of peer-to-peer networking and agentbased computing seems to be a perfect match. Agents are cooperative and communication oriented, while peerto-peer networks typi...
Benno J. Overeinder, Etienne Posthumus, Frances M....
We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications which require long-term voluntary use, and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin
We describe work done at three sites on designing conversational agents capable of incremental processing. We focus on the `middleware' layer in these systems, which takes ca...
David Schlangen, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier,...