In this paper, we describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of avatars' visual fidelity and users' anticipated future interaction o...
Semanta is a system supporting Semantic Email, implemented as an add-in to two popular Mail User Agents, using existing email transport technology and integrated with the Social Se...
Simon Scerri, Ioana Giurgiu, Brian Davis, Siegfrie...
We are developing a conversational agent called VIBRANT to provide adaptive support for brainstorming in pairs in a scientific inquiry context. Our previous experimental study indi...
The ability to model cognitive agents depends crucially on being able to encode and infer with contextual information at many levels (such as situational, psychological, social, or...
Srini Narayanan, Katie Sievers, Steven J. Maiorano
In this paper, we propose to endow a graphical representation of a user in Instant Messaging – an avatar – with the ability to recognize and to express emotions and to play soc...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...