: We report on a new kind of culturally-authentic embodied conversational agent more in line with the ways that culture and ethnicity function in the real world. On the basis of th...
In this paper we describe the design of a relational agent interface for handheld computers and the results of a study exploring the effectiveness of different useragent interacti...
: Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries wi...
Whilst techniques for narrative generation and agent behaviour have made significant progress in recent years, natural language processing remains a bottleneck hampering the scala...
Fred Charles, David Pizzi, Marc Cavazza, Thurid Vo...
We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...