This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...
This paper describes our preliminary analysis on the induction of communication protocols. Our work has two goals: (i) to recognize rules (i.e. protocols) from the communicative b...
In this paper, we present a new recognition system for the fast detection and classification of objects in spatial 3D data. The system consists of two main components: A biologic...
This article builds on insights into how humans cope with emotion to guide the design of virtual humans. Although coping is increasingly viewed in the psychological literature as ...
The development of more and more complex distributed applications over large networks of computers has raised the problem of semantic interoperability across applications based on ...
Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini,...