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IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
ALT
2008
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Optimally Learning Social Networks with Activations and Suppressions
In this paper we consider the problem of learning hidden independent cascade social networks using exact value injection queries. These queries involve activating and suppressing a...
Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, Lev Reyzin
ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Effects of resource and remembering on social networks
To better represent human interactions in social networks, the authors take a network-oriented simulation approach to analyze the evolution of acquaintance networks based on local...
Chung-Yuan Huang, Yu-Shiuan Tsai, Chuen-Tsai Sun
DALT
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Declarative and Numerical Analysis of Edge Creation Process in Trust-Based Social Networks
Online social networks are enjoying drastic increase in their population and connectivity. One of the fundamental issues in these networks is trust, which is an essential factor in...
Babak Khosravifar, Jamal Bentahar, Maziar Gomrokch...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Design from the everyday: continuously evolving, embedded exploratory prototypes
One of the major challenges in the design of social technologies is the evaluation of their qualities of use and how they are appropriated over time. While the field of HCI abound...
Clint Heyer, Margot Brereton