In this paper, we describe our experience with the design and implementation of an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that converses with users in order to change their dietary b...
Fiorella de Rosis, Nicole Novielli, Valeria Carofi...
Virtual health counseling agents on mobile devices need to be able to interrupt their users when it is time for them to engage in healthy behaviors, such as scheduled medication t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Mauer, Francisco Cresp...
Abstract. People consider other people who resemble them to be more persuasive. Users may consider embodied conversational agents, or ECAs, to be more persuasive if the agents rese...
Ian Li, Jodi Forlizzi, Anind K. Dey, Sara B. Kiesl...
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common groun...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Gabe Reinstein, Tom Stocky, Just...
We describe an implemented system for the simulation and visualisation of the emotional state of a multimodal conversational agent called Max. The focus of the presented work lies ...
Christian Werner Becker, Stefan Kopp, Ipke Wachsmu...