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AAAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The More the Merrier: Multi-Party Negotiation with Virtual Humans
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
CIA
2003
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
A Framework for the Social Description of Resources in Open Environments
Abstract. The description of public resources such as web site contents, web services or data files in open peer-to-peer networks using some formal framework like RDF usually re...
Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß
AAMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Experiments in Subsymbolic Action Planning with Mobile Robots
The ability to determine a sequence of actions in order to reach a particular goal is of utmost importance to mobile robots. One major problem with symbolic planning approaches re...
John Pisokas, Ulrich Nehmzow
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Spatial Scaffolding for Sociable Robot Learning
Spatial scaffolding is a naturally occurring human teaching behavior, in which teachers use their bodies to spatially structure the learning environment to direct the attention of...
Cynthia Breazeal, Matt Berlin