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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
MM
2009
ACM
159views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
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Visual categorization with negative examples for free
Automatic visual categorization is critically dependent on labeled examples for supervised learning. As an alternative to traditional expert labeling, social-tagged multimedia is ...
Xirong Li, Cees G. M. Snoek
ISCC
2008
IEEE
185views Communications» more  ISCC 2008»
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Towards business model and technical platform for the service oriented context-aware mobile virtual communities
: Owing to the recent technical advances in the computing and mobile communications domain, the world of online virtual communities is experiencing a phenomenal growth and ever-inc...
Pravin Pawar, Julien Subercaze, Pierre Maret, Bert...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
109views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
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Personality Matters: Incorporating Detailed User Attributes and Preferences into the Matchmaking Process
Finding ways of reducing undesired behavior in online interactions is at the forefront of the social computing research agenda. One promising way to reduce perceived “bad behavi...
Jens Riegelsberger, Scott Counts, Shelly Farnham, ...
LAWEB
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Geographical Characterization of YouTube: a Latin American View
Online social media applications have exploded in popularity in the Web. In most of these applications, users interact with other users and create content that becomes available o...
Fernando Duarte, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgi...