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BCSHCI
2009
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Combining manual feedback with subsequent MDP reward signals for reinforcement learning
As learning agents move from research labs to the real world, it is increasingly important that human users, including those without programming skills, be able to teach agents de...
W. Bradley Knox, Peter Stone
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A tale of two publics: democratizing design at the margins
The design and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has now evolved beyond its workplace origins to the wider public, expanding to people who live at the margins ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Jim Christensen, Mark Ba...
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
TASLP
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Creating conversational interfaces for children
Creating conversational interfaces for children is challenging in several respects. These include acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition (ASR), language and dialog mode...
Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Alexandros Potamianos