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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 1 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
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
PRESENCE
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
The Effect of Viewing a Self-Avatar on Distance Judgments in an HMD-Based Virtual Environment
Few HMD-based virtual environment systems display a rendering of the user's own body. Subjectively, this often leads to a sense of disembodiment in the virtual world. We expl...
Betty J. Mohler, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, William B....
KDD
2009
ACM
216views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Finding a team of experts in social networks
Given a task T , a pool of individuals X with different skills, and a social network G that captures the compatibility among these individuals, we study the problem of finding X ,...
Theodoros Lappas, Kun Liu, Evimaria Terzi
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The effect of affective iconic realism on anonymous interactants' self-disclosure
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...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, James H. Watt