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AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Motivating Learners by Nurturing Animal Companions: My-Pet and Our-Pet
This paper reports a pilot study of how to utilize simulated animal companions to encourage students to pay more effort in their study in the classroom environment. A class of stud...
Zhi-Hong Chen, Yi-Chan Deng, Chih-Yueh Chou, Tak-W...
HUC
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Carrot Approach: Encouraging Use of Location Systems
The Active Bat system provides the ability to locate users and equipment with a high degree of accuracy and coverage. Despite this, participation is low. We are concerned that this...
Kieran Mansley, Alastair R. Beresford, David Scott
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Nonverbal leakage in robots: communication of intentions through seemingly unintentional behavior
Human communication involves a number of nonverbal cues that are seemingly unintentional, unconscious, and automatic—both in their production and perception—and convey rich in...
Bilge Mutlu, Fumitaka Yamaoka, Takayuki Kanda, Hir...
SCA
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Smooth movers: perceptually guided human motion simulation
To animate a character, a number of poses are displayed in quick succession in order to create the illusion of motion. For most real-time applications, such as games, the pose upd...
Rachel McDonnell, Fiona N. Newell, Carol O'Sulliva...
AAAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Authorial Idioms for Target Distributions in TTD-MDPs
In designing Markov Decision Processes (MDP), one must define the world, its dynamics, a set of actions, and a reward function. MDPs are often applied in situations where there i...
David L. Roberts, Sooraj Bhat, Kenneth St. Clair, ...