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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Conversational Agents"”.
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Action scheduling in humanoid conversational agents
… to action scheduling in lifelike humanoid agents. The action scheduler constitutes a module in the agent which links the mental processes to the physical actions of the agent. It receives requests from the agent's behavior generating modules and schedules them to be executed at the …
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Conversational agents for tutoring digital board games
We first present Jessy, a chatbot for tutoring The Royal Game of Ur. Jessy answers questions about the game rules, suggests the next best move considering the player’s state, and informs the player about the important events within the game. An explanatory study showed that Jessy assistant was …
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Effective Tutoring with Empathic Embodied Conversational Agents
… we assess the prospects of using empathic agents in a classroom setting and describe a number of requirements for their effective use.
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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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Designing conversational agents to promote self-disclosure and behavior change
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 121097 Lift date: 2024-01-12T22:35:30Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Conveying routes : multimodal generation and spatial intelligence in embodied conversational agents
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Believable conversational agents for teaching ancient history and culture in 3D virtual worlds
This thesis introduces believable conversational agents as an engaging and motivational learning tool for teaching ancient history and culture in virtual worlds. Traditional approaches are lacking engagement, interactivity and socialisation, features that are of tremendous importance to modern …
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Comparing how conversational agents’ modalities and apparent genders affects in correcting health misinformation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Designing AI-driven conversational agents to support older adults’ virtual reality learning and lifelong growth
This research investigates how AI-driven conversational agents (CAs) can support older adults in learning and engaging with virtual reality (VR) technology. Through semi-structured interviews with three participants aged 50+ and a participatory design workshop, we explored the challenges older …
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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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Exploring the use of conversational agents to improve cyber situational awareness in the Internet of Things (IoT).
… This thesis evaluated the effectiveness of conversational agents to improve Cyber Situational Awareness. In doing so, it presented the first study to investigate their ability to help users improve their perception of smart device activity, comprehend this in the context of their home …
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Harnessing AI for older adults: examining the applications, use acceptance, and perception of conversational agents in care
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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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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Knowledge engineering for semantic understanding
… of improving semantic understanding in conversational agents by combining Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) within a flexible, multi-domain knowledge plugin architecture. We explore the inherent difficulties LLMs face in interpreting plain-text user queries, as well …
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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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Generation of non-verbal behavior for an embodied conversational character
… thesis discusses the generation of multi-modal conversational cues in animated computer characters. Drawing from psycholinguistic literature of behaviors observed in human-human interactions, a study of turn-taking cues in a human-computer interaction, and previous work in creating animated …
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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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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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