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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
AUSAI
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Domain-Adaptive Conversational Agent with Two-Stage Dialogue Management
The conversational agent understands and provides users with proper information based on natural language. Conventional agents based on pattern matching have much restriction to ma...
Jin-Hyuk Hong, Sung-Bae Cho
PRICAI
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Task Models, Intentions, and Agent Conversation Policies
It is possible to define conversation policies, such as communication or dialogue protocols, that are based strictly on what messages and, respectively, what performatives may foll...
Renee Elio, Afsaneh Haddadi, Ajit Singh
ARGMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Dialogue Mechanism for Public Argumentation Using Conversation Policies
In this paper, we propose a flexible dialogue mechanism through which a set of agents can establish a coherent set of public beliefs. Flexibility and coherence are achieved by dec...
Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A 'companion' ECA with planning and activity modelling
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...