In this paper we study the potential and the challenges posed by multi-user instruments, as tools that can facilitate interaction and responsiveness not only between performers an...
The taking of initiative has significance in spoken language dialogue systems and in human-computer interaction. A system that takes no initiative may fail to seize opportunities ...
This paper describes an online control framework to design self-managing distributed computing systems that continually optimize their performance in response to changing computin...
This paper describes a personal service robot developed for assisting a user in his/her daily life. One of the important aspects of such robots is the user-friendliness in communi...
Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobutaka Shimada, Yasu...
- The proliferation of the impressive web technologies provides developers with a way to produce performance efficient, usable, rich and interactive web based applications. A set o...