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AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Politeness in Tactics for Pedagogical Agents
Politeness may play a role in tutorial interaction, including promoting learner motivation and avoiding negative affect. Politeness theory can account for this as a means of mitiga...
W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Elisabeth Andr...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Girls Creating Games: Challenging Existing Assumptions about Game Content
In a reinforcing cycle, few females create games and fewer girls than boys play games. In this paper, we increase our understanding of what girls like about games and gaming by de...
Jill Denner, Steven Bean, Linda L. Werner
WSTST
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Soft Modeling of Group Dynamics and Behavioral Attributes
: Social networks, religion and culture of human beings play a major role in the day-to-day activities performed by each individual in group oriented missions. The aggregation and ...
Soumya Banerjee, Ajith Abraham, Sang-Yong Han, P. ...
APGV
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Perceiving translucent materials
Many common materials, including fruit, wax and human skin, are somewhat translucent. What makes an object look translucent or opaque? Here we use a recently developed computer gr...
Roland W. Fleming, Henrik Wann Jensen, Heinrich H....
HT
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Saving private hypertext: requirements and pragmatic dimensions for preservation
The preservation of literary hypertexts presents significant challenges if we are to ensure continued access to them as the underlying technology changes. Not only does such an ef...
Catherine C. Marshall, Gene Golovchinsky