Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experimental learning and entertainment. Nowadays, virtual environments often incorporate human-like embodied virtual agent...
In this paper, we describe a method for pedagogical agents to choose when to interact with learners in interactive learning environments. This method is based on observations of h...
For my dissertation, I am designing, implementing and evaluating the use of a new kind of "authorable" virtual peer that allows children with autism to learn about recip...
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Several researchers, present authors included, envision personal mobile robot agents that can assist humans in their daily tasks. Despite many advances in robotics, such mobile ro...
Stephanie Rosenthal, Joydeep Biswas, Manuela M. Ve...