Multimodal interfaces combining, e.g., natural language and graphics take advantage of both the individual strength of each communication mode and the fact that several modes can ...
We present Dialog Moves Markup Language (DMML): an extensible markup language (XML) representation of modality independent communicative acts of automated conversational agents. I...
Behavioral software contracts express properties concerning the flow of values across component (modules, classes, etc) interfaces. These properties are often beyond the reach of ...
In this paper we describe Lokutor, a virtual human. Lokutor is a partially autonomous agent, inhabiting a 3D virtual environment. The agent can be controlled via natural language ...
People display adaptive language behaviors in face-to-face conversations, but will computer users do the same during HCI? We report an experiment (N=20) demonstrating that users...
Jamie Pearson, Jiang Hu, Holly P. Branigan, Martin...