Researchers demand much from their embodied conversational agents (ECAs), requiring them to be both life-like, as well as responsive to events in an interactive setting. We find t...
This paper complements McCarthy's "The well designed child", in part by putting it in a broader context, the space of possible well designed progeny, and in part by...
In recent times, information presentation has evolved towards sophisticated approaches that involve multi-modal aspects and character-based mediation. This paper presents a novel ...
Rossana Damiano, Vincenzo Lombardo, Antonio Pizzo,...
This paper describes a computational learning model inspired by the technology of optical thin-film multilayers from the field of optics. With the thicknesses of thin-film layers ...
This paper describes a digital theater installation called Buzz. Buzz consists of virtual actors who express the collective voice generated by weblogs (blogs). These actors find ...
Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, David A. Shamma,...