This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...
A cultural institution such as a museum needs to attract visitors. Due to the fact that Internet has become an important information and marketing channel, the question of using a...
This paper studies the pricing of software development outsourcing. Two pricing techniques – time and material and fixed price – are described and the economic conditions for ...
In this paper, we compare alternative techniques for evaluating a software system for simplifying the readability of texts for adults with mild intellectual disabilities (ID). We ...
Testing methods are compared in a model where program failures are detected and the software changed to eliminate them. The question considered is whether it is better to use test...
Phyllis G. Frankl, Richard G. Hamlet, Bev Littlewo...