Safe & Sound uses location-aware mobile phones to create a "virtual leash"; a secure zone beyond which a child may not travel. If the child leaves this zone, both ch...
Current electronic commerce applications such as online auction systems are not trustworthy due to a lack of effective trust management mechanisms. A trustworthy online auction sy...
Animated pedagogical agents oer great promise for knowledge-based learning environments. In addition to coupling feedback capabilities with a strong visual presence, these agents...
A feature extraction system based on artificial life concepts is presented. The system provides automatic character feature extraction through the local actions of autonomous feat...
Virtual health counseling agents on mobile devices need to be able to interrupt their users when it is time for them to engage in healthy behaviors, such as scheduled medication t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Mauer, Francisco Cresp...