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HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents
We survey recent research in which the impact of an embodied conversational agent on human-computer interaction has been assessed through a human evaluation. In some cases, the eva...
Mary Ellen Foster
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
AgentSalon: facilitating face-to-face knowledge exchange through conversations among personal agents
This paper presents a system called AgentSalon, which facilitates face-to-face knowledge exchange and discussion by people having shared interests, in museums, schools, offices, a...
Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Breaking the Ice in Human-Agent Communication: Eye-Gaze Based Initiation of Contact with an Embodied Conversational Agent
In human-human conversation, the first impression decides whether two people feel attracted by each other and whether contact between them will be continued or not. Starting from ...
Nikolaus Bee, Elisabeth André and Susanne Tober
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Synchronous versus asynchronous collaboration in situated multi-agent systems
According to the taxonomy for agent activity, proposed by V. Parunak, a collaboration is an interaction between agents of a multi-agent system (MAS) whereby the agents explicitly ...
Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore