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ICMI
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Modeling culturally authentic style shifting with virtual peers
: We report on a new kind of culturally-authentic embodied conversational agent more in line with the ways that culture and ethnicity function in the real world. On the basis of th...
Justine Cassell, Kathleen Geraghty, Berto Gonzalez...
MM
2005
ACM
188views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Detecting group activities using rigidity of formation
Most work in human activity recognition is limited to relatively simple behaviors like sitting down, standing up or other dramatic posture changes. Very little has been achieved i...
Saad M. Khan, Mubarak Shah
ECCV
2004
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
A Linguistic Feature Vector for the Visual Interpretation of Sign Language
Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach to sign language recognition that provides extremely high classification rates on minimal training data. Key to this approach is a 2 ...
Richard Bowden, David Windridge, Timor Kadir, Andr...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Learning empathy: a data-driven framework for modeling empathetic companion agents
Affective reasoning plays an increasingly important role in cognitive accounts of social interaction. Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify the...
Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester
UM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Inducing Effective Pedagogical Strategies Using Learning Context Features
Effective pedagogical strategies are important for e-learning environments. While it is assumed that an effective learning environment should craft and adapt its actions to the use...
Min Chi, Kurt VanLehn, Diane J. Litman, Pamela W. ...