We investigate the impact of a discussion snippet’s overall sentiment on a user’s willingness to read more of a discussion. Using sentiment analysis, we constructed positive, ...
Hyung-il Ahn, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, David R. ...
This paper is a report on early user activity in Many Eyes, a public web site where users may upload data, create visualizations, and carry on discussions. Since the site launched...
A long-standing goal of AI is the development of intelligent workstation-based personal agents to assist users in their daily lives. A key impediment to this goal is the unrealist...
Tom M. Mitchell, Sophie H. Wang, Yifen Huang, Adam...
Due to its important role in dialogue, politeness has been widely studied both from a theoretical point of view and at a practical level in virtual agents. However, few attention ...
Abstract. Different turn-taking strategies of an agent influence the impression that people have of it. We recorded conversations of a human with an interviewing agent, controlled ...