We survey recent research in which the impact of an embodied conversational agent on human-computer interaction has been assessed through a human evaluation. In some cases, the eva...
Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are ...
We describe recent work on PECAS, an architecture for intelligent robotics that supports multi-modal interaction. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.8 [Computing Methodologies...
A review of current agent-based systems exemplifies that a Western perspective is predominant in the field. But as conversational agents focus on rich multimodal interactive behavi...
Most interactive tasks engage more than one of the user’s exteroceptive senses and are therefore multimodal. In real-world situations with multitasking and distractions, the key...