In this paper, we discuss the various issues in designing intelligent software systems to assist worldwide-web users in locating relevant information. We identi3 a number of key c...
Joseph K. W. Lee, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, J...
This paper proposes an emotion model for life-like agents with emotions and motivations. This model consists of reactive and deliberative mechanisms. The former generates low-leve...
This paper presents a prototype dialogue system, K2, in which a user can instruct agents through speech input to manipulate various objects in a 3-D virtual world. The agents’ ac...
An E-Partner is a photo-realistic conversation agent, which has a talking head that not only look photo-realistic but also can have a conversation with the user about a given topic...
Bo Zhang, Changbo Hu, Qingsheng Cai, Baining Guo, ...
Internet pervasive services call for flexible supports to enable a wide degree of collaboration. On the one hand, many people are connected to the Internet and surf the Web not on...