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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The comforting presence of relational agents
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman
IWC
2006
165views more  IWC 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Cross-cultural differences in recognizing affect from body posture
Conveyance and recognition of human emotion and affective expression is influenced by many factors, including culture. Within the user modeling field, it has become increasingly n...
Andrea Kleinsmith, P. Ravindra De Silva, Nadia Bia...
ITS
2010
Springer
176views Multimedia» more  ITS 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
A Time for Emoting: When Affect-Sensitivity Is and Isn't Effective at Promoting Deep Learning
We have developed and evaluated an affect-sensitive version of AutoTutor, a dialogue based ITS that simulates human tutors. While the original AutoTutor is sensitive to learners’...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Blair Lehman, Jeremiah Sullins,...
HCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Responding to Learners' Cognitive-Affective States with Supportive and Shakeup Dialogues
This paper describes two affect-sensitive variants of an existing intelligent tutoring system called AutoTutor. The new versions of AutoTutor detect learners' boredom, confusi...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Scotty D. Craig, Karl Fike, Art...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Greta: an interactive expressive ECA system
We have developed a general purpose use and modular architecture of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) called Greta. Our 3D agent is able to communicate using verbal and nonve...
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Mauriz...