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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Providing route directions: design of robot's utterance, gesture, and timing
Providing route directions is a complicated interaction. Utterances are combined with gestures and pronounced with appropriate timing. This study proposes a model for a robot that...
Yusuke Okuno, Takayuki Kanda, Michita Imai, Hirosh...
CMOT
2006
124views more  CMOT 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
My agents love to conform: Norms and emotion in the micro-macro link
This contribution investigates the function of emotion in relation to norms, both in natural and artificial societies. We illustrate that unintentional behavior can be normative an...
Christian von Scheve, Daniel Moldt, Julia Fix, Rol...
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Cybernetic Approach to the Modeling of Agent Communities
This paper, which is expository in nature, investigates and illustrates the idea of using cybernetic system modeling techniques to model a multi-agent community. The cybernetic co...
Walt Truszkowski, Jay Karlin
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
ICMI
2005
Springer
108views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2005»
14 years 17 days ago
Understanding the effect of life-like interface agents through users' eye movements
We motivate an approach to evaluating the utility of lifelike interface agents that is based on human eye movements rather than questionnaires. An eye tracker is employed to obtai...
Helmut Prendinger, Chunling Ma, Jin Yingzi, Arturo...