— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
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...
Online games represent a burgeoning market sector of increasing economic importance. The distinctive entertainment-oriented features of such games provide various experiential val...
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Eliciting user-task models is a thorny problem in modelbased user interface design, and communicating domainspecific knowledge from an expert to a knowledge engineer is a continui...