The last decade has witnessed substantial progress in speech recognition technology, with todays state-of-the-art systems being able to transcribe unrestricted broadcast news audi...
Research in Interactive Narrative has developed new approaches to the behaviour of virtual actors, but has dedicated little attention to the physical behaviour of the environment ...
Assume that we are trying to build a visual recognizer for a particular class of objects--chairs, for example--using existing induction methods. Assume the assistance of a human t...
We present an interactive abstract painting system named Sisley. Sisley works upon the psychological principle [Berlyne 1971] that abstract arts are often characterized by their gr...
Spoken language is one of the most intuitive forms of interaction between humans and agents. Unfortunately, agents that interact with people using natural language often experienc...