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IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Intelligent Crawling in Virtual Worlds
—We present an intelligent agent crawler designed to collect user-generated content in Second Life and related virtual worlds. The agents navigate autonomously through the world ...
Josh Eno, Susan Gauch, Craig W. Thompson
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Does the contingency of agents' nonverbal feedback affect users' social anxiety?
We explored the association between users' social anxiety and the interactional fidelity of an agent (also referred to as a virtual human), specifically addressing whether th...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, James H....
PRICAI
2004
Springer
14 years 12 days ago
K2: Animated Agents that Understand Speech Commands and Perform Actions
This paper presents a prototype dialogue system, K2, in which a user can instruct agents through speech input to manipulate various objects in a 3-D virtual world. The agents’ ac...
Takenobu Tokugana, Kotaro Funakoshi, Hozumi Tanaka
ICANN
2003
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
The Acquisition of New Categories through Grounded Symbols: An Extended Connectionist Model
Abstract. Solutions to the symbol grounding problem, in psychologically plausible cognitive models, have been based on hybrid connectionist/symbolic architectures, on robotic appro...
Alberto Greco, Thomas Riga, Angelo Cangelosi
IVA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents
Abstract. Recent research has established the potential for virtual characters to establish rapport with humans through simple contingent nonverbal behaviors. We hypothesized that ...
Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Jillian Gerten, Edward...