To-do lists have been found to be the most popular personal information management tools, yet there is no automated system to interpret and act upon them when appropriate on behal...
Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. To achieve this, an agent must be able to interact with the lea...
W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Andrew Marshall, Cath...
Building trust with users is crucial in a wide range of applications, such as advice-giving or financial transactions, and some minimal degree of trust is required in all applicat...
The objective of this research is the exploration how affective knowledge used in global controlling mechanisms for public information systems with lifelike presentation agents wil...
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...