Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations ha...
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Pao...
Curtin University’s Talking Heads (TH) combine an MPEG-4 compliant Facial Animation Engine (FAE), an Text To Emotional Speech Synthesiser (TTES), a multi-modal Dialogue Manager (...
He Xiao, Donald Reid, Andrew Marriott, E. K. Gulla...
Speech-based applications commonly come with web-based or printed manuals. Alternatively, the dialogue can be designed so that users should be able to start using the application ...
Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen, Esa-Pekka Salone...
An analysis of context-aware user interfaces shows that adaptation mechanisms have a cost-benefit trade-off for usability. Unpredictable autonomous interface adaptations can easil...
Tim F. Paymans, Jasper Lindenberg, Mark A. Neerinc...
This paper studies the performance of a multi-rate mobile ad hoc network (MANET) using an extended ns-2 simulator. A link adaptation algorithm is developed and tested. The multi-r...