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CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Understanding technology choices and values through social class
This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area explores parents’ attitudes about their children’s use of technology. We found that parents from d...
Morgan G. Ames, Janet Go, Joseph Kaye, Mirjana Spa...
AIIDE
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Normative Echoes: Use and Manipulation of Player Generated Content by Communities of NPCs
Normative Echoes is an interactive installation that explores ways to combine player-created content with procedural content. Animated autonomous agents inhabit virtual islands on...
Eric Baumer, Bill Tomlinson, Man Lok Yau, Thomas A...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Learning Dialogue Strategies from Older and Younger Simulated Users
Older adults are a challenging user group because their behaviour can be highly variable. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study where dialogue strategies are learn...
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna D. Moor...
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Interactive storytelling for children
Since the nineties, storytelling has received increasing attention in the HCI, IDC, and AI communities, exploring the potential of interactivity and multimedia as a means to promo...
Franca Garzotto, Paolo Paolini, Amalia Sabiescu
INTERACT
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Attentional Effect of Animated Character
: Research has found that animated characters are capable of capturing users’ attention, engaging them in active tasks, and entertaining them. Such capabilities are pedagogical t...
Cholyeun Hongpaisanwiwat, Michael Lewis