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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Modalities for building relationships with handheld computer agents
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...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Mauer
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Towards caring machines
The perception of feeling cared for has beneficial consequences in education, psychotherapy, and medicine. Results from a longitudinal study of simulated caring by a computer are ...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Rosalind W. Picard
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An embodied conversational agent as a lifestyle advisor
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...
MM
2005
ACM
130views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Multimodal expressive embodied conversational agents
In this paper we present our work toward the creation of a multimodal expressive Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA). Our agent, called Greta, exhibits nonverbal behaviors synchro...
Catherine Pelachaud
HICSS
2005
IEEE
143views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent
In our paper last year [1], we described our languagetraining program, which utilizes Baldi as a tutor, who guides students through a variety of exercises designed to teach vocabu...
Dominic W. Massaro, Slim Ouni, Michael M. Cohen, R...