Notes:
The references below appear to be discussing the development and use of virtual personal assistants, dialogue systems, and virtual reality technology in various contexts, including customer service, education, and social interactions. It mentions the use of natural language processing, multi-modal interactions, and cultural sensitivity in the development of these systems. The text also mentions the importance of understanding social intelligence and human behavior in the design of virtual characters and the use of crowdsourcing methods in the development of spoken dialogue systems. The text also mentions the use of virtual reality technology in therapy and training, and the importance of believability in the design of virtual characters. Overall, the text seems to be focused on the development and use of technology for human-like interactions and the application of these technologies in various fields.
In this text, virtual humans are mentioned as being used in a variety of contexts, such as personal assistants, tutoring agents, and customer service. They are also mentioned as being used in virtual reality interventions for therapy and training, and in the development of computational models of social intelligence. Overall, it seems that the role of virtual humans in this text is to serve as a human-like interface for interacting with users in a variety of contexts, and to assist with tasks such as information retrieval, education, and therapy.
Computational models of social intelligence in the context of virtual humans refer to the development of algorithms and computer programs that enable virtual characters to behave in a way that is socially intelligent and human-like. This can involve the virtual character being able to recognize and interpret social cues, such as facial expressions and tone of voice, and respond appropriately. It can also involve the virtual character being able to initiate and maintain social interactions, and to adapt its behavior to the context and needs of the user.
In general, computational models of social intelligence for virtual humans are designed to enable the virtual character to exhibit behaviors that are similar to those of a human in social interactions. This can include things like being able to initiate and maintain conversations, understanding and expressing emotions, and being able to adapt to different social situations. The development of these models often involves the use of machine learning techniques, as well as the incorporation of data and insights from social psychology and other fields that study human social behavior.
See also:
Virtual Humans & Dialog Systems 2017 (130x) | Virtual Humans & Dialog Systems 2018 (145x) | Virtual Humans & Dialog Systems 2019 (171x) | Virtual Humans & Dialog Systems 2020 (147x)
A Deep Learning Methodology for Semantic Utterance Classification in Virtual Human Dialogue Systems
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V Ramanarayanan, P Lange, D Pautler, Z Yu… – Proceedings of the …, 2016 – vikramr.com
… or trainee, providing a natural and engaging interface that can adapt to their individual strengths and weak- ness in real time so as to increase the efficacy of training [1]. In this spirit, we present a multimodal dialog system equipped with a virtual human avatar interlocutor …
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Artificially Intelligent College Oriented Virtual Assistant
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… and responding to factors like trust and emotions, is for the virtual humans to begin … The current custom in virtual human dialogue systems is to use skilled human recordings or … [2] Incremental Speech Understanding in a Multi-Party Virtual Human Dialogue System David DeVault …
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M Muron, K Jokinen – workshop.colips.org
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Agent-Oriented Methodology for Designing Cognitive Agents for Serious Games
CW Shiang, JJ Meyer, K Taveter – Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, 2016 – turing.pro.br
… Eurosis. 7 (50). [6] Van Oijen, J., Van Doesburg, W., & Dignum, F.(2011). Goal-based communication using BDI agents as virtual humans in training: An ontology driven dialogue system. In: F. Dignum (Ed.), Agents for Games and Simulations II, 38-52. Berlin, Germany: Springer …
NegoChat-A: a chat-based negotiation agent with bounded rationality
A Rosenfeld, I Zuckerman, E Segal-Halevi… – Autonomous Agents and …, 2016 – Springer
… In contrast, Traumet et al. [18] presented a model of conversation strategies which they implemented in a virtual human in order to help people learn negotiation skills. Their virtual human can negotiate in complex adversarial negotiation with a human trainee …
Conversational interfaces: devices, wearables, virtual agents, and robots
M McTear, Z Callejas, D Griol – The Conversational Interface, 2016 – Springer
… character animation platform developed originally at the University of Southern California that is included in the Virtual Human Toolkit but … The FurHat platform was developed by human–computer interaction experts at Furhat Robotics with a strong background in dialog …
Extending MAM5 Meta-Model and JaCalIV E Framework to Integrate Smart Devices from Real Environments
JA Rincon, JL Poza-Lujan, V Julian… – PloS one, 2016 – journals.plos.org
This paper presents the extension of a meta-model (MAM5) and a framework based on the model (JaCalIVE) for developing intelligent virtual environments. The goal of this extension is to develop augmented mirror worlds that represent a real and virtual world coupled, so that the …
Natural Language Understanding Performance & Use Considerations in Virtual Medical Encounters.
TB Talbot, N Kalisch, K Christoffersen, GM Lucas… – MMVR, 2016 – books.google.com
… Towards natural language understanding of partial speech recognition results in dialogue systems … S, and Lok B. Human-centered distributed conversational modeling: efficient modeling of robust virtual human conversations … Practical Language Processing for Virtual Humans …
Time-offset conversations on a life-sized automultiscopic projector array
A Jones, J Unger, K Nagano, J Busch… – Proceedings of the …, 2016 – cv-foundation.org
… The au- gust spoken dialogue system. In In Proceedings of Eu- rospeech’99, pages 1151–1154, 1999. 2 [6] A. Hartholt, D. Traum, SC Marsella, A. Shapiro, G. Stra- tou, A. Leuski, L.-P. Morency, and J. Gratch. All Together Now: Introducing the Virtual Human Toolkit …
Towards a listening agent: a system generating audiovisual laughs and smiles to show interest
K El Haddad, H Çakmak, E Gilmartin… – Proceedings of the 18th …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… 1.1 Feedback in Dialogue Systems and Con- versational Agents Spoken interaction is far more than a verbal rendition of linguistic text, and includes elements in … Several of these cues have been the subject of dialogue system research, particularly in the domain of turntaking …
Towards serious gaming for communication training-a pilot study with police academy students
T Bosse, C Gerritsen – International Conference on Intelligent …, 2016 – Springer
… initiatives that show promising results regarding the possibility to train social skills based on simulated environments involving virtual humans [3, 4 … A dialogue system based on conversation trees has been used to enable trainees to engage in a conversation with the embodied …
Research on the Applications of Computer VR (Virtual Reality) Technology in Physical Training
H Qi, Z Xiaowei, M Tiemin, L Hui – Revista Ibérica de Sistemas …, 2016 – search.proquest.com
… For example, Dialogue system put forward a mid-drive UMIS (User Management Interface System) based on event drive … the design of 3D scene and virtual role is also the most complicated technology, including scene modeling technology, virtual human modeling technology …
Leveraging dialog systems research to assist biomedical researchers’ interrogation of Big Clinical Data
J Hoxha, C Weng – Journal of biomedical informatics, 2016 – Elsevier
… two well-established fields have been very active through achievements in theory, methods and evaluation, and the development of re-usable dialog system components. Many of their contributions provide a foundation for designing and evaluating dialog systems that support …
Modeling personality, mood, and emotions
J Zhang, J Zheng, N Magnenat-Thalmann – Context aware human-robot …, 2016 – Springer
… Overall testing: Virtual humans or agents are equipped with the proposed models. Dialogue scenarios between the virtual human/agents and users are designed. The overall responses of the virtual characters/agents are judged …
Autonomous virtual human agents for healthcare information support and clinical interviewing
A Rizzo, R Shilling, E Forbell, S Scherer… – Artificial intelligence in …, 2016 – Elsevier
… This chapter discusses virtual human (VH) conversational agents to support client interaction within a healthcare context … Keywords. Virtual reality. virtual humans. autonomous agents. sensing. healthcare support. clinical interviewing. Introduction …
Learning to respond with deep neural networks for retrieval-based human-computer conversation system
R Yan, Y Song, H Wu – Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. Learning to Respond with Deep Neural Networks for Retrieval-Based Human-Computer Conversation System Rui Yan Baidu Inc. No. 10, Xibeiwang East Road, Beijing 100193, China yanrui02@baidu.com Yiping Song Baidu Inc. No …
Game On: Creatively Using Gaming to Teach the Informed Consent Process to Clinical Research Professionals.
J Berrios – thannual – academia.edu
… WMJ, 112 (1), 18–23. Hubal, RC, & Day, RS (2006). Informed consent procedures: An experimental test using a virtual character in a dialog systems training application … Accessibility and acceptance of responsive virtual human technology as a survey interviewer training tool …
Shall I Be Your Chat Companion? Towards an Online Human-Computer Conversation System
R Yan, Y Song, X Zhou, H Wu – … of the 25th ACM International on …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
Page 1. “Shall I Be Your Chat Companion?” Towards an Online Human-Computer Conversation System Rui Yan1,3 1Institute of Computer Science and Technology (ICST) Peking University Beijing 100871, China yanrui02@baidu.com …
Erica: The erato intelligent conversational android
DF Glas, T Minato, CT Ishi, T Kawahara… – 2016 25th IEEE …, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… like to thank Jani Even, Florent Ferreri, Koji Inoue, and Kurima Sakai for their contributions to ERICA’s control software, dialog system, and sensor … Marsella, A. Shapiro, G. Stratou, A. Leuski, L.-P. Morency, and J. Gratch, “All together now: Introducing the Virtual Human Toolkit,” in …
Conversational Agents as Learning Facilitators: Experiences With a Mobile Multimodal Dialogue System Architecture
D Griol, Z Callejas – Formative Assessment, Learning Data Analytics and …, 2016 – Elsevier
… Dialogue systems may also be used as role-playing actors in simulated experiential learning environments. In these settings, the dialogue system carries out a specific function in a very realistic way inside a simulated environment that emulates the real learning environment …
Emotion, Affect, and Personality
M McTear, Z Callejas, D Griol – The Conversational Interface, 2016 – Springer
… is a research professor of Computer Science and Psychology and Director or Virtual Human Research at … Z, Griol D, López-Cózar R (2011) Predicting user mental states in spoken dialogue systems … R, Araki K (2009) Activating humans with humor—a dialogue system that users …
A smartphone-based virtual agent for atrial fibrillation education and counseling
E Kimani, T Bickmore, H Trinh, L Ring… – … conference on intelligent …, 2016 – Springer
… Circulation 98, 946–952 (1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 8. Bickmore, T., Giorgino, T.: Health dialog systems for patients and consumers. J. Biomed … Leuski, A., Gowrisankar, R., Richmond, T., Shapiro, A., Xu, Y., Feng, A.: Mobile personal healthcare mediated by virtual humans …
Supporting social skills rehabilitation with virtual storytelling
C Even, AG Bosser, J Ferreira, C Buche… – The Twenty-Ninth …, 2016 – haslab.uminho.pt
… Virtual human interviewers have also been used in the past to detect behaviors correlated with depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress … The dialogue system processes the persons’ spoken answers and facial expressions to control the flow of the conversation based on …
Do variations in agency indirectly affect behavior with others? an analysis of gaze behavior
A Robb, A Kleinsmith, A Cordar, C White… – IEEE transactions on …, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… 2 RELATED WORK 2.1 Gaze with Virtual Humans Rehm and André explored gaze behavior as a measure of engagement during interactions with real and virtual humans [26]. Two human par- ticipants and one virtual human played Mexicali, a simple dice game involving …
Capturing and Animating Hand and Finger Motion for 3D Communicative Characters
NS Wheatland – 2016 – escholarship.org
… characters. Though many methods have been developed over the years to facilitate aspects of 3D character anima- tion, creating realistic virtual humans is still a challenge. This is partly because of the way virtual characters move …
The CaMeLi Framework—A multimodal virtual companion for older adults
C Tsiourti, J Quintas, M Ben-Moussa, S Hanke… – Proceedings of SAI …, 2016 – Springer
… Figure 5 illustrates the 3D virtual human, which closely simulates human conversational behaviour through the use of synthesized voice and … Google Scholar. 8. Bickmore, TW, Schulman, D., Sidner, CL: A reusable framework for health counseling dialogue systems based on a …
Observing, Coaching and Reflecting: Metalogue-A Multi-modal Tutoring System with Metacognitive Abilities.
J Van Helvert, V Petukhova, CA Stevens… – EAI Endorsed Trans …, 2016 – core.ac.uk
… The Metalogue project aims to develop a multi-modal, multi-party, dialogue system with metacognitive abilities that will advance our … 2016; published on 27 June 2016 Keywords: natural conversational interaction, mixed-reality, multi-modal dialogue systems, immersive, debate …
Virtual Assistive Companions for Older Adults
C Tsiourti, E Joly, C Wings, MB Moussa, K Wac – 2016 – researchgate.net
… 1) Virtual Human The 3D virtual human (Fig … SmartBody enables easy control of the facial expressions of the virtual human using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This lets us individually control each action unit (AU) to achieve particular emotions …
Virtual health agents for behavior change: Research perspectives and directions
WP Brinkman – Proceedings of the Workshop on Graphical and …, 2016 – macs.hw.ac.uk
… this time outside the hospital, is SimCoach [41], which is a virtual human support agent that … Research into embodied conversational agents and natural dialog systems, in general, is in this … D., Sidner, CL: A reusable framework for health counseling dialogue systems based on a …
EAI Endorsed TransactionsPreprint Research Article/Editorial
J Van Helvert, V Petukhova, C Stevens, HWD Börner… – lsv.uni-saarland.de
… The Metalogue project aims to develop a multi-modal, multi-party, dialogue system with metacognitive abilities that will … XXXX; accepted on XXXX; published on XXXX Keywords: natural conversational interaction, mixed-reality, multi-modal dialogue systems, immersive, debate …
Conquering an exo-planet through the use of a virtual role playing game assisted by an emotionally intelligent pedagogical agent
A Terracina, F Fabiani, LS Ferro… – … on Games Based …, 2016 – search.proquest.com
… Swartout (2013), presents a system that embodies the idea of virtual humans that act and interact like humans, bringing social elements in the interaction … We start from the result found by Mori to implement our dialogue system. 667 Page 3. Annalisa Terracina et al …
Psychophysiology in games
GN Yannakakis, HP Martinez, M Garbarino – Emotion in games, 2016 – Springer
… Neuron 33(4):653–663CrossRefPubMedGoogle Scholar. 25. De Melo C, Paiva A (2007) Expression of emotions in virtual humans using lights, shadows, composition and filters. In: Affective computing and intelligent interaction …
A language-based model for specifying and staging mixed-initiative dialogs
S Perugini, JW Buck – Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… Thus, “[d]eveloping a mixed-initiative dialog system is a complex task” [20] and “involves a very intensive programming ef- fort” [17] … We seek to generalize the specification of dialogs, and improve and automate the engineering of task- based, dialog systems supporting this type …
Affective Human Computer Interaction
K Sumi – Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life, 2016 – atlantis-press.com
… Our research group has developed intelligent dialogue system that proactively interacts with a user according to the user’s circumstances … JG Buckwalter, J. Williams, TD Parsons, P. Kenny, David Traum, J. Difede, BO Rothbaum: SimCoach: an intelligent virtual human system for …
Dialogue systems and dialogue management
D Burgan – 2016 – apps.dtic.mil
… A spoken dialogue system is a specialised form of computer system that operates as an interface between users and the application, using spoken … This report provides a general overview of some of the key themes identified in the area of spoken dialogue systems and their …
SiAM-dp: an open development platform for massively multimodal dialogue systems in cyber-physical environments.
R Neßelrath – 2016 – core.ac.uk
… Other extensive projects deploy well elaborated platforms for multimodal dialogue systems … Ontology Based SiAM-dp is fully ontology based and uses a single domain adaptable knowledge repre- sentation throughout the complete dialogue system …
Toward conscious-like conversational agents
M Gnjatovi?, B Borovac – … Socially Believable Behaving Systems-Volume II, 2016 – Springer
… Virtual Human [34] … also [25, pp.180–2]). To illustrate this, we consider two spoken dialogue systems: the SUNDIAL system designed to handle travel conversations [4], and the speech translation system Verbmobil [1]. The dialogue structure underlying the implementation of the …
Character Modeling through Dialogue for Expressive Natural Language Generation
G Lin – 2016 – escholarship.org
… decision making. Many forms of INS involve interactions with virtual human char- acters … 12 Page 27. 2015b], was created to build end-to-end dialogue systems with recurrent neural networks (RNN) and n-gram models. It contains dialogue of 3 turns between …
Timed Petri nets for fluent turn-taking over multimodal interaction resources in human-robot collaboration
C Chao, A Thomaz – The International Journal of Robotics …, 2016 – journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this work is to develop computational models of social intelligence that enable robots to work side by side with humans, solving problems and achieving task goals through dialogue and c…
Military Usages of Speech and Language Technologies: A Review.
D Griol, JG Herrero, JM Molina – Meeting Security Challenges …, 2016 – books.google.com
… D. Griol et al./Military Usages of Speech and Language Technologies: A Review 49 Spoken dialog systems have also been used for education and training, particularly in improving phonetic and linguistic skills. For instance, the LARRI multimodal dialog system [41] provided …
The ALICO corpus: Analysing the active listener
Z Malisz, M W?odarczak, H Buschmeier… – Language resources …, 2016 – Springer
… More generally, the design of ALICO resulted in conversations rich in feedback behaviour that could improve existing models of feedback implemented in dialogue systems and help build more human-like and sociable conversational agents …
“The Problem of the Adjective”. Affective Computing of the Speaking Voice
J Feldman – Transposition. Musique et Sciences Sociales, 2016 – journals.openedition.org
… Customer-service call centers are now using “automatic dialogue systems” to detect if a speaker is … and outputs information that then is used to direct the virtual human toward an … like AGI, began with the aim of creating more affectively sensitive and convincing Virtual Humans …
Predicting Dialogue Acts for Intelligent Virtual Agents with Multimodal Student Interaction Data.
W Min, JB Wiggins, LG Pezzullo, AK Vail… – … Educational Data Mining …, 2016 – ERIC
… The selection of dialogue moves was informed by the literature on dialogue systems for learning [8], as well as experience with a recent study conducted in the same middle school, in which pairs of … SimSensei Kiosk : A Virtual Human Interviewer for Healthcare Decision Support …
Exploring self-interruptions as a strategy for regaining the attention of distracted users
B Carlmeyer, D Schlangen, B Wrede – … of the 1st Workshop on Embodied …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… area of attention and the use of eye-gaze, still relatively few studies explicitly address on how to best apply these findings to human-agent interaction (HAI) and to implement them in incremental dialogue systems … The rickel gaze model: A window on the mind of a virtual human …
Avi Rosenfeld, Inon Zuckerman, Erel
OD Segal-Halevi, S Kraus – Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst, 2016 – homedir.jct.ac.il
… skills. Their virtual human can negotiate in complex adversarial negotiation with a human trainee … 6 NegoChat-A’s natural language Our natural language system has a standard dialog system architecture [29], described in Fig. 1 …
Socrates: from social relation to attitude expressions
F Pecune, M Ochs, S Marsella… – Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 – ifaamas.org
… 1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays machines own a prominent place in our life. Studies show that we are becoming more comfortable with the idea of interacting with them [35] in particular when the interaction involves virtual humans as partners …
Task-Oriented Communicative Capabilities of Agents in Collaborative Virtual Environments for Training
P DE LOOR, N SABOURET, E BEVACQUA… – researchgate.net
… 50 3.7 Conclusion . . . . . 51 4 Cognitive Agent Architectures for Collaborative Virtual Humans 53 Page 13. TABLE OF CONTENTS ix 4.1 Introduction . . . . . 53 …
Annotation and analysis of listener’s engagement based on multi-modal behaviors
K Inoue, D Lala, S Nakamura, K Takanashi… – Proceedings of the …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… SimSensei kiosk: A virtual human interviewer for healthcare decision support. In Proc. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pages 1061–1068, 2014 … Knowledge graph inference for spoken dialog systems. In Proc. ICASSP, pages 5346–5350, 2015 …
Designing interaction strategies for companions interacting with children
NR Seïler – Emotions, Technology, and Design, 2016 – Elsevier
… CIS are designed for resolving failures in the dialog system—not understanding, clarifying information, eliminating incongruences related to the user model … Confused Strategy—is to respond to input that is not understood, the Dialogue System has crashed and the information is …
A cognitive-affective architecture for ECAs
J Pérez, E Cerezo, FJ Seron, LF Rodriguez – Biologically Inspired Cognitive …, 2016 – Elsevier
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Domain-Specific Semantic Role Labeling: Portability of Existing Resources
N Reese – 2016 – scholar.colorado.edu
… 71 Page 10. x List of Figures 2.1 Virtual Human Toolkit Architecture … as conversational agents (Jurafsky and Martin, 2009). Dialogue systems can be broken down into … the exact methods are dependent upon the type of dialogue system being used, and the context in …
AniSAM & AniAvatar: Animated visualizations of affective states
A Sonderegger, K Heyden, A Chavaillaz… – Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… used for. Various tools which are based on automatic measures of emotions have been suggested such as MAUI [22], AffectAura [25], EmotiBoard [33,40], FAIM [10], Affective Diary [42] or the 3D virtual human [17]. All those …
Reforming the representation of the reformation: Mixed reality narratives in communicating tangible and intangible heritage of the protestant reformation in Finland
L Viinikkala, L Yli-Seppälä, OI Heimo… – … on Virtual System & …, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Once the exact position and orientation the device is found, the virtual human characters as well as other elements of the scene can be drawn correctly on the device screen … For dialogue in the app, both Articy:Draft 2 [33] and Dialogue System software [34] were used …
Visual environment and interlocutors in situated dialogue
S Brown-Schmidt – Visually Situated Language Comprehension, 2016 – books.google.com
… artificial intel- ligence. The virtual human, Max, developed by the artificial intelligence group at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, is one good example. Max is an incredibly convincing virtual dialog partner. He makes use …
D4. 7 1st Expressive Virtual Characters
F Yang, C Peters – 2016 – prosociallearn.eu
… SEMAINE project 2 built a Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) and a multimodal dialogue system which can … Make Human is especially designed for the modeling of virtual humans. Other software, such as ZBrush, Blender, Maya are also used to sculpt virtual human models and …
What makes virtual agents believable?
A Bogdanovych, T Trescak, S Simoff – Connection Science, 2016 – Taylor & Francis
In this paper we investigate the concept of believability and make an attempt to isolate individual characteristics (features) that contribute to making virtual characters believable. As the result…
A computational model of social attitudes for virtual agents
F Pecune, M Ochs, S Marsella, C Pelachaud – enib.fr
… Studies show that we are becoming more comfortable with the idea of interacting with them [22] in particular when the interaction involves virtual humans as partners … In Advances in natural multimodal dialogue systems, pages 23–54. Springer, 2005 …
Things that Make Robots Go HMMM: Heterogeneous Multilevel Multimodal Mixing to Realise Fluent, Multiparty, Human-Robot Interaction
NCEDD Reidsma – researchgate.net
… To ensure that the AsapRealizer will also stay relevant for use with Virtual Humans, we have started working on the coupling with the Unity3D game … presented here will be used to govern the interaction between human users and a duo consisting of a robot and a virtual human …
Multimodal analysis of speech and arm motion for prosody-driven synthesis of beat gestures
E Bozkurt, Y Yemez, E Erzin – Speech Communication, 2016 – Elsevier
… In this category, the Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) of Cassell et al. (1994) is a pioneering rule-based dialog system which can animate conversations between human-like agents … Another example to text-driven methods is the Virtual Human Presenter of Noma et al …
Effective directed gaze for character animation
T Pejsa – 2016 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. EFFECTIVE DIRECTED GAZE FOR CHARACTER ANIMATION by Tomislav Pejsa A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Sciences) at the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON 2016 …
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
J Pérez, E Cerezo, FJ Serón, LF Rodríguez – 2016 – giga.cps.unizar.es
Page 1. Research article A cognitive-affective architecture for ECAs Joaquín Pérez a,* , Eva Cerezo a, Francisco J. Serón a, Luis-Felipe Rodríguez b a Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), Department of Computer …
Artificial Persuasion in Pedagogical Games
Z Zeng – arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06245, 2016 – arxiv.org
… 45 Figure 5.7 Example of a Persuasion Cue ….. 46 Figure 5.8 Water Molecule Requests Teaching from the Student ….. 46 Figure 5.9 Example Dialogue Entry in Unity Dialogue System ….. 48 …
A Conversational Agent for the Improvement of Human Reasoning Skills
NT Le – fg-elearning.gi.de
… Page 13. called ‘Virtual Humans’ (Gulz et al. 2011). Examples of those kind have been developed by Kramer et al. (2013), DeVault et al. (2014), and DeVault et al. (2015). The goal of this thesis is to create an Intelligent Tutoring …
A virtual emotional freedom practitioner to deliver physical and emotional therapy
H Ranjbartabar – 2016 – researchonline.mq.edu.au
… 5 2.1 Empathic Virtual Humans ….. 5 … NVBG NonVerbal Behaviour Generator PTSD Post Trauma Stress Disorder TFT Thought Field Therapy VH Virtual Human VP Virtual Patient VRET Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy …
Spinning tri-layer-circle memory-based Gaussian mixture model for background modeling
Y Qi, H Li, Y Wang, B Liu – 2016 IEEE 13th International …, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page 1. Spinning Tri-Layer-Circle Memory-based Gaussian Mixture Model for Background Modeling Yujuan, Qi, Hui, Li,Yanjiang, Wang, Baodi, Liu College of Information and Control Engineering,China University of Petroleum …
The body that speaks: recombining bodies and speech sources in unscripted face-to-face communication
A Gillespie, K Corti – Frontiers in psychology, 2016 – frontiersin.org
This article examines advances in research methods that enable experimental substitution of the speaking body in unscripted face-to-face communication. A taxonomy of six hybrid social agents is presented by combining three types of bodies (mechanical, virtual, and human) with …
Sub-Saharan African languages: from speech fundamentals to applications
M Adda-Decker, L Besacier, M Davel, L Hyman… – 2016 – isca-speech.org
… discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2016 will be co-located with INTERSPEECH 2016 as a satellite event, and also with YRRSDS 2016, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems …
Affective analysis and Modeling of Spoken Dialogue Transcripts
E Palogiannidi – 2016 – researchgate.net
… Jose Lopes, Arodami Chorianopoulou, Elisavet Palogiannidi, Helena Moniz, Alberto Abad, Katerina Louka, Elias Iosif and Aleandros Potamianos “The SpeDial Datasets: Datasets for Spoken Dialogue Systems Analytics”, in Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language …
Rendering for Automultiscopic 3D Displays
A Jones – 2016 – search.proquest.com
Rendering for Automultiscopic 3D Displays. Abstract. While a great deal of computer generated imagery is modelled and rendered in three dimensions, the vast majority of this 3D imagery is shown on two-dimensional displays …
A survey of autonomous human affect detection methods for social robots engaged in natural HRI
D McColl, A Hong, N Hatakeyama, G Nejat… – Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 – Springer
Page 1. J Intell Robot Syst (2016) 82:101–133 DOI 10.1007/s10846-015-0259-2 A Survey of Autonomous Human Affect Detection Methods for Social Robots Engaged in Natural HRI Derek McColl · Alexander Hong · Naoaki Hatakeyama · Goldie Nejat · Beno Benhabib …
Gestures become more informative when communication is unsuccessful
MW Hoetjes – 2016 – repository.ubn.ru.nl
Page 1. PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The following full text is a publisher’s version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/162512 …
Social media in the Arab world: Communication and public opinion in the Gulf states
B Gunter, M Elareshi, K Al-Jaber – 2016 – books.google.com
Page 1. ED ITED BY BARRIE GUNTER, M0 KHTAR ELARESHI AMD KHALID AL-J ABER S0 G|A| ME|| || C O MM UN |CATION AND PUBLIC O PIN | ON IN THE GULF STATES | IBTA U. R. S. Page 2. Page 3. Barrie Gunter is Emeritus …
Using Behavior Objects to Manage Complexity in Virtual Worlds
M ?erný, T Plch, M Marko, J Gemrot… – … Intelligence and AI …, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
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