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ASSETS
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
VocaliD: personalizing text-to-speech synthesis for individuals with severe speech impairment
Speech synthesis options on assistive communication devices are very limited and do not reflect the user’s vocal quality or personality. Previous work suggests that speakers wit...
Camil Jreige, Rupal Patel, H. Timothy Bunnell
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
CANDC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Discovery is never by chance: designing for (un)serendipity
Serendipity has a long tradition in the history of science as having played a key role in many significant discoveries. Computer scientists, valuing the role of serendipity in dis...
Paul André, m. c. schraefel, Jaime Teevan, ...
CANDC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
An empirical study of cognition and theatrical improvisation
This paper presents preliminary findings from our empirical study of the cognition employed by performers in improvisational theatre. Our study has been conducted in a laboratory ...
Brian Magerko, Waleed Manzoul, Mark Riedl, Allan B...
WETICE
2005
IEEE
16 years 8 days ago
Trust Infrastructure for Policy based Messaging In Open Environments
Policy-based messaging (PBM) aims at carrying security policies with messages, which will be enforced at recipient systems to provide security features. PBM promotes a distributed...
Gansen Zhao, David W. Chadwick