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IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Are two talking heads better than one?: when should use more than one agent in e-learning?
Recent interest in the use of software character agents raises the issue of how many agents should be used in online learning. In this paper we review evidence concerning the rela...
Hua Wang, Mark H. Chignell, Mitsuru Ishizuka
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A hybrid learning system for recognizing user tasks from desktop activities and email messages
The TaskTracer system seeks to help multi-tasking users manage the resources that they create and access while carrying out their work activities. It does this by associating with...
Jianqiang Shen, Lida Li, Thomas G. Dietterich, Jon...
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A cognitively based approach to affect sensing from text
Studying the relationship between natural language and affective information as well as assessing the underpinned affective qualities of natural language are becoming crucial for ...
Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsur...
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Topic modeling in fringe word prediction for AAC
Word prediction can be used for enhancing the communication ability of persons with speech and language impairments. In this work, we explore two methods of adapting a language mo...
Keith Trnka, Debra Yarrington, Kathleen F. McCoy, ...
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Introduction to human-robot interaction
Jean Scholtz, Holly A. Yanco, Jill L. Drury
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Linking messages and form requests
Large organizations with sophisticated infrastructures have large form-based systems that manage the interaction between the user community and the infrastructure. In many cases, ...
Anthony Tomasic, John Zimmerman, Isaac Simmons
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Intelligent fridge poetry magnets
This paper presents a community of communicating embodied agents which learn an adjacency-based grammar from user interactions. The agents act as intelligent fridge magnets, each ...
Kavita Thomas, Pierre Proske, Mattias Rickardsson
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Multimodal interaction styles for hypermedia adaptation
We explore the concept of interaction styles used to navigate through hypermedia systems. A demonstrator was built to conduct a user study with the objective of detecting whether ...
Ronnie Taib, Natalie Ruiz
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Towards intelligent QA interfaces: discourse processing for context questions
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Mingyu Sun, Joyce Y. Chai