Automatic adaptation of the environment to user preferences results in personalized ambients that fulfill user interaction requirements in a more suitable way. However, the proble...
It is difficult to design innovative information and communication technologies to meet needs that will emerge from future interactions between users, technologies and their situa...
In this paper, we survey different types of Models of culture for virtual humans. Virtual humans are artificial agents that include both a visual human-like body and intelligent co...
Gestural communication is an important part of shared work, both in face-to-face settings and distributed environments. However, gestures in groupware are often difficult to see a...
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...