This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
Although social research into group interaction has flourished since the 20th century, the technology of embodied conversational agents for handling multiparty interaction is stil...
The CASA architecture describes a platform for the provisioning of services by agents by supporting three levels of agent design. At the base level is a framework to build an agen...
This paper proposes a formal framework and architecture for specification and analysis of interactive agents. The framework can be used to explore the design space, study features...
Abstract. For many years, the HCI community has harbored a vision of interacting with intelligent, embodied computer agents. However, the reality of this vision remains elusive. Fr...
Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman, Vince Mancuso, Sony...