Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like computer generated characters that interact with human users in face-to-face multi-modal conversations. ECA systems are general...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Toyoaki Nishida, Aleksandra Cere...
Our work with communities in developing countries suggests that HCI practice is a long way from maturity in these contexts. With this SIG, we are seeking to build on a CHI2007 work...
Mike Best, Andrew M. Dearden, Susan M. Dray, Ann L...
This paper reports the results of a recent survey involving over one hundred leading professionals of user-centered design (UCD). The survey covered a broad range of issues rangin...
Ji-Ye Mao, Karel Vredenburg, Paul W. Smith, Tom Ca...
Abstract-- jMetal is a Java-based framework for multiobjective optimization using metaheuristics. It is an ease-to-use, flexible, and extensible software package that has been used...
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...