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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Embodied conversational agents."”.
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Effective Tutoring with Empathic Embodied Conversational Agents
… examines the prospect of using empathy in an Embodied Tutoring System (ETS) that guides students through an online quiz (by providing feedback on student answers and responding to self-reported student emotion). The ETS seeks to imitate human behaviours successfully used in one-to-one human …
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Paired speech and gesture generation in embodied conversational agents
… conversation 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 …
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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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Relational agents : effecting change through human-computer relationships
… this work introduces a theory of Relational Agents, which are computational artifacts designed to build and maintain long-term, social-emotional relationships with their users. These can be purely software humanoid animated agents--as developed in this work--but they can also be non-humanoid …
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A transdisciplinary study of embodiment in HCI, AI and New Media.
… to explain the complexity and dynamism of the embodied interaction between the human and machine. Secondly, the thesis argues for thinking of transdisciplinary research as a process of individuation, becoming or transduction, that is, as a process of mediation between heterogeneous approaches …
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Agentes animados personificados en sistemas interactivos: diseño y evaluación
… strategies are being proposed for incorporating Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) into interactive systems. Following a design and evaluation approach this Thesis analyses a full scope of aspects, from benefits to difficulties and limi¬tations, relevant to the inclusion of ECAs in two …
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The persuasiveness of humanlike computer interfaces varies more through narrative characterization than through the uncanny valley
Just as physical appearance affects persuasion and compliance in human communication, it may also bias the processing of information from avatars, computer-animated characters, and other computer interfaces with faces. Although the most persuasive of these interfaces are often the most humanlike, …
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A avaliação da integração de um tutor virtual em cursos a distância
A evolução tecnológica tem contribuído significativamente para mudanças relevantes em quase todas as dimensões da nossa sociedade, nomeadamente na educação e, consequentemente, na Educação a Distância (EaD). Associando as potencialidades das tecnologias disponíveis, à necessidade dos estudantes e à …