Conversing on cell phones while driving an automobile is a common practice. We examine the interference of the cognitive load of conversational dialog with driving tasks, with the...
The procedures to collect information about users are well known in computer science till long time. They range from getting explicit information from users, required in order to ...
Abstract— In robot-assisted interventions, providing a surgeon with haptic information regarding contacts made between surgical instruments and tissue can improve task performanc...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moalle...
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
When using the computer, each user has some notion that "these applications are important" at a given point in time. We term this subset of applications that the user va...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Joseph Subid...