Collaborative Systems support user groups enabling a shared environment and informing of its state and changes through a mechanism called awareness. We believe that these changes a...
Multi-agent systems are open and extensible systems that allow for the deployment of autonomous and proactive software components. This paper describes how a multi-agent architectu...
Robin Strahan, Conor Muldoon, Gregory M. P. O'Hare...
— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
Correcting recognition errors is often necessary in a speech interface. These errors not only reduce users' overall entry rate, but can also lead to frustration. While making...
A `pragmatic' alternative to undetachable signatures is proposed. Undetachable signatures were introduced by Sander and Tschudin, [4], as a means of giving a mobile agent the...