Research in Interactive Narrative has developed new approaches to the behaviour of virtual actors, but has dedicated little attention to the physical behaviour of the environment ...
Spontaneous multi-party interaction – conversation among groups of three or more participants – is part of daily life. While automated modeling of such interactions has receiv...
Paul M. Aoki, Margaret H. Szymanski, Luke D. Plurk...
The History Tablecloth is a flexible substrate screen-printed with electroluminescent material forming a grid of lace-like elements. When objects are left on the table, cells bene...
William W. Gaver, John Bowers, Andy Boucher, Andy ...
This paper presents the combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject. Two live Human Robo...
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Sarah Wood...
To enable conversational QA, it is important to examine key issues addressed in conversational systems in the context of question answering. In conversational systems, understandi...