Titlebook: Intelligent Virtual Agents; 8th International Co Helmut Prendinger,James Lester,Mitsuru Ishizuka Conference proceedings 2008 Springer-Verla

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Audio Analysis of Human/Virtual-Human Interactionine if conversing with a VH can elicit detectable and systematic vocal changes. To study this topic, we examined the H-VH scenario of pharmacy students speaking with immersive VHs playing the role of patients. The audio analysis focused on the students’ reaction to scripted empathetic challenges des

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Learning Smooth, Human-Like Turntaking in Realtime Dialogueystematic categorization of silences, prosody and other candidate turn-giving signals, and to use analysis of corpora to produce static decision trees for this purpose. However, for general-purpose turntaking skills which vary between individuals and cultures, a system that can learn them on-the-job

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sils are no longer needed in daily life nowadays. The craft of bamboo weaving utensils is gradually losing people’s attention that few craftsmen can still work on it. In this study, a folklore hobbyist, a craftsman, a horticulturist, and an interior decorator were invited to digitize bamboo weaving

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Christian Becker-Asano,Ipke Wachsmuthtta warriors and horses in 1984. At that time, . demonstrated that multimedia technology could change the way we seek, demand, and use information. Two decade later, fueled by enormous progress in science and technology, we have come a very long way from the use of interactive multimedia technology

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Xueni Pan,Marco Gillies,Mel Slater advocates from organizations such as EDUCAUSE2, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)3, the European Schoolnet partnership4, and UNESCO5 have long argued for the potential that information technology has to transform education by improving access — both spatially (“anyplace”) and temporally

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Kenzaburo Miyawaki,Mutsuo Sanoenerally produce binary outcomes (either assign or not assign a subject descriptor) that do not adequately reflect the extent to which a document is associated with the assigned subject descriptors. An automated weighting mechanism for subject descriptors is needed to strengthen the role of the subj