It has already been noted that the accurate prediction of societal responses requires the use of a formal model based on some social or cultural taxonomy. One such taxonomic candi...
Adnan Yazici, Frederick E. Petry, Curt Pendergraft
This paper presents a novel concept: a graphical representation of human emotion extracted from text sentences. The major contributions of this paper are the following. First, we p...
We present an overview of the Virtual Patient project at the University of Maryland, which is developing a cognitive model of humans experiencing various states of health and dise...
Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale,...
Culture and emotions have a profound impact on human behavior. Consequently, high-fidelity simulated interactive environments (e.g., trainers and computer games) that involve virt...
Vadim Bulitko, Steve Solomon, Jonathan Gratch, Mic...
The effectiveness of support provided to virtual communities depends strongly on what we know about a particular community of people and in what areas the community needs support....