-- Assessing the value of individual users' contributions in peer-production systems is paramount to the design of mechanisms that support collaboration and improve users'...
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. ...
— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
— This paper evaluates the performance of VoIP services over mobile accesses, with special focus on currently deployed Best Effort UMTS networks. There are different configuratio...
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
This paper introduces an approach of creating an image composite by seamlessly blending a region of interest from an image onto another while faithfully preserving the color of reg...