Ever more frequently, social and particularly group interactions, involve mediated communication. Yet we know very little about the factors determining the effectiveness of the in...
Maria Cristina Brugnoli, Federico Morabito, Richar...
Research suggests that collaboration in an on-line course can enhance learning, reduce feelings of isolation, increase satisfaction with the course, and increase motivation. Unfor...
Sandra C. Hughes, Leah Wickersham, David L. Ryan-J...
In this position paper we analyze the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce a novel research direction for providing incentives, required in this...
Abstract This paper attempts to define an emotional model for virtual agents that behave autonomously in social worlds. We adopt shallow modeling based on the decomposition of the...
The ability to model cognitive agents depends crucially on being able to encode and infer with contextual information at many levels (such as situational, psychological, social, or...
Srini Narayanan, Katie Sievers, Steven J. Maiorano