Software components, if usedproperly, ofj~r many software engineering benefits. Yet, they also pose many original challenges starting fi'om quality assurance and ranging to a...
AspectWerkz is a framework targeted towards dynamic aspectoriented programming (AOP) in commercial applications. Based on our experience designing and supporting AspectWerkz, we h...
This talk discusses how to strike a good balance between making the user an active co-constructor of system functionality versus making a too strong, interpretative design that do...
In this paper, we introduce a system that synthesizes the emotional audio-visual speech for a 3-D talking agent by adopting the PAD (Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance) emotional model. A ...
A prerequisite of any successful social robot is the ability to express its internal state and intention to humans in a natural way. Many researchers studied verbal and nonverbal f...