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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Conversational Agent"”.
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Conversational Agent for Health Coaching
… users support, personalized care with a human agent in the loop can enhance the care delivery. Due to the increasing demand for continuous care by users and the shortage of caregiver resources, current health services are inefficient relative to user support and decreasing caregivers workload. …
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Collaborative storytelling with an embodied conversational agent
… interaction between children and an embodied conversational agent.
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A Conversational Agent for Dynamic Procedural Interactions
… asked of search engines and presumably of conversational agents as well. Answers to How-To questions should generally be in the form of a procedure; step-by-step instructions that users perform in sequence. However, people find reading instructions cognitively demanding and often prefer …
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DIL - A CONVERSATIONAL AGENT FOR HEART FAILURE PATIENTS
… this work designed and evaluated "DIL", a Conversational Agent that complements the work of clinicians in achieving the desired behavioral and clinical outcomes. The aim is to provide the hospital with an information system that could bridge the current gap in care that occurs when the …
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Non-verbal signals for grounding in embodied conversational agent
… of grounding functionality onto an Embodied Conversational Agent is presented. The dialogue state updating mechanism in the Dialogue Manager accesses non-verbal information conveyed by a user and judges the groundedness of presented materials based on the results of empirical study.
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Conversational Agent: Developing a Model for Intelligent Agents with Transient Emotional States
<p>The demonstration of aggressive behaviors in the workplace can usually lead to negative professional consequences. However, combat-related professions may involve life and death decision making on an almost daily basis. This is one occupational area in which major duties may invoke or even …
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An implementation of face-to-face grounding in an embodied conversational agent
… a face-to-face grounding system in an embodied conversational agent that is based on a model of grounding extracted from the research. This is the first such agent that supports nonverbal grounding, and so this thesis represents both a proof of concept and a guide for future work in this area, …
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The Art of Deep Connection - Towards Natural and Pragmatic Conversational Agent Interactions
… achieving this goal. Although we now have agents that can answer questions asked for images, they are prone to failure from confusing input, and cannot ask clarification questions, in turn, to extract the desired information from humans. Hence, as a first step, we direct our efforts towards …
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Designing a conversational agent for promoting participation of under-contributing members in a small group chat discussion
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Empowering K-12 Students to Understand and Design Conversational Agents: Concepts, Recommendations and Development Platforms
… between trust and anthropomorphism of agents. However, very little research investigates children’s perceptions of these devices, and even less investigates how interventions might change these perceptions. This is despite how educational interventions have previously changed how people …
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Paired speech and gesture generation in embodied conversational agents
… as an interface metaphor, an embodied conversational agent is likely to be easier to use and learn than traditional graphical user interfaces. To make a believable agent that to some extent has the same social and conversational skills as humans do, the embodied conversational agent …
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Natural Language Interface for Prescriptive AI Solutions in Enterprise
… focuses on extending upon the proof-of-concept agent, PrecAIse, by designing a domain-adaptable conversational agent equipped with a suite of causal and prescriptive tools. The objective is to make advanced, novel causal inference and prescriptive tools widely accessible through natural language …
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Al Planning Assistant for Scheduling Daily Activities
<p>Artificial conversational agents are software agents that can interact with humans in the way humans do. Siri Cortana, and Alexa are examples of intelligent agents that can help us with almost all the basic tasks. These agents are smart enough to do the basic tasks, but not as much when it comes …
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GrandChair : conversational collection of grandparents' stories
… for grandparents must be based on a model of conversational behavior, must provide a comfortable and story-evoking environment, and that the ideal interface is an autonomous animated character. I present GrandChair, a system which can elicit, record, index, and play back grandparents' stories …
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Empathetic Text Style Transfer Layer for Conversational Agents a modular architecture and new resource for the italian language
… advances in natural language generation, current conversational agents rarely exhibit genuine empathetic behavior, often producing neutral or affectively inadequate responses. This limitation is even more evident for the Italian language, where the development of empathy‐aware systems is …
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Humanizing Digital Experiences: Three Essays on the Design of Digital Entities
… magazines or television, toward bi-directional/conversational media. Firm representatives are increasingly digital, and thus dynamic, autonomous and personalizable. Rooted in the shift in marketing practice, this dissertation seeks to identify and quantify effective approaches to the design and …
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Knowledge base integration in biomedical natural language processing applications
… processing applications: text simplification, conversational agents for medication adherence, and automatic evaluation of medical students' chart notes. In the first task, we take as a use case simplifying medication instructions to enhance medication adherence among patients. Given the lack of …
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Supporting students’ peer assessment using chatbots
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15397 on 2020-08-25 at 17:44:28
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Exploring the impact of conversational strategies on user search experience in goal-oriented tasks in a voice-only domain
Conversational search has recently become established as a new information search paradigm. Increasing numbers of people are using smart speakers and virtual personal assistants to access information online. Given the substantial increase in the usage of devices that feature conversational agents, …
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Agentes animados personificados en sistemas interactivos: diseño y evaluación
… en la incorporación de la tecnología de los Agentes Animados Personificados en los sistemas interactivos. Esta Tesis aborda esta problemática desde el punto de vista del diseño y la evaluación en dos áreas de aplicación muy específicas: los sistemas de diálogo hablado (SLDSs) orientados a …
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