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Agents United
2021
Proceedings of the 21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Figure 1: A group of ASAP (1, 3, 5) and GRETA (2, 4) agents in the same Unity environment. ...
A user can participate in a multiparty group conversation by selecting a response from the menu on the right (in the same interface or on a separate device). ...
The Agents United Alliance is supported by the Personalised eHealth Technology programme of the University of Twente. ...
doi:10.1145/3472306.3478352
fatcat:ahdul46v4japflnlbiookozu2m
In Search of Embodied Conversational and Explainable Agents for Health Behaviour Change and Adherence
2021
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
The article also introduces ECAs who provide explanations of their recommendations, known as explainable agents (XAs), as a way to build trust and enhance the working alliance towards improved behavior ...
Due to the recognized importance of face-to-face communication and establishment of a therapist-patient working alliance as the biggest single predictor of adherence, our review focuses on embodied conversational ...
Working Alliance The term working alliance refers to the positive collaboration between the therapist and the patient. Mathieu, et al. ...
doi:10.3390/mti5090056
fatcat:fv3mo6t4g5ggroohmcvnjn5kny
Establishing the computer–patient working alliance in automated health behavior change interventions
2005
Patient Education and Counseling
, indicate that the use of relational behaviors by the system significantly increases working alliance and desire to continue working with the system. ...
Results of a comparison among 33 subjects interacting near-daily with the relational system and 27 interacting near-daily with an identical system with the relational behaviors ablated, each for 30 days ...
The agent has an animated human body and interacts with users in a simulated face-to-face conversation (an "embodied conversational agent" [39] , see Figure 1 ). ...
doi:10.1016/j.pec.2004.09.008
pmid:16198215
fatcat:j7hjt6v5cfbd7p43t43yjhzwcy
Establishing and maintaining long-term human-computer relationships
2005
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
We construct the first such agent, and evaluate it in a controlled experiment with 101 users who were asked to interact daily with an exercise adoption system for a month. ...
This requires, at a minimum, some kind of natural conversational interface and, at a maximum, the use of embodied conversational agents, robots, or some other articulate physical form factor to enact both ...
The client consists of two web browsers coupled with a vector-graphics-based embodied conversational agent synchronized with a text-to-speech engine (see Figure 1 ). ...
doi:10.1145/1067860.1067867
fatcat:6yw5xbm7obcqtgvqvtaw6wxfyy
Abusive interactions with embodied agents
2008
Interaction Studies
Numerous research groups around the world are attempting to build realistic and believable autonomous embodied agents that attempt to have natural interactions with users. ...
We highlight the potential opportunities for abuse when interacting with embodied agents in virtual worlds and discuss how our social interactions with such entities can contribute to abusive behaviour ...
Such policing agents would require extensive social knowledge and skills -for example, when analysing an interaction between an embodied agent and a user, the security agent would need to give consideration ...
doi:10.1075/is.9.3.07cre
fatcat:7gqtcf3ssfbdxpce2zssxr5jxa
Trans* Identities and Politics: Repertoires of Action, Political Cleavages, and Emerging Coalitions
2020
Politics and Governance
and embodied action. ...
This article thus argues that trans* politics, through nonbinary activism and a new intersectional feminist praxis, may expand the political subject of feminism and our understanding of identity politics ...
aims to build alliances intersecting with other autonomous subjects (selves) aiming for mutual recognition through the very notion of 'difference.' ...
doi:10.17645/pag.v8i3.2927
doaj:cce4ce4ac2d54a1ea5cd478fca45a358
fatcat:jknxlh63o5fhlkem7lj74tex2a
Towards caring machines
2004
Extended abstracts of the 2004 conference on Human factors and computing systems - CHI '04
Results from a longitudinal study of simulated caring by a computer are presented, in which 60 subjects interacted with a computer agent daily for a month, half with a "caring" agent and half with an agent ...
willingness to continue working with the "caring" agent. ...
This material is based upon work supported through NSF Grant 0087768. ...
doi:10.1145/985921.986097
dblp:conf/chi/BickmoreP04
fatcat:2m2egclkx5ah7bl7gxdysu6l2i
Landscaping personification technologies
2008
Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '08
Speech as an interaction is finally becoming robust and useable and is very influential in people attributing intelligence to devices and systems. ...
Building on the experience of a previous project, and drawing on the experience of a four year €12m multidisciplinary project, called Companions, the authors are keen to build community relationships around ...
The technology is a development of agents. Agents appear in the literature as software agents, interface agents or embodied conversational agents (ECA). ...
doi:10.1145/1358628.1358908
dblp:conf/chi/BenyonM08
fatcat:v6ujrkb4mjffngiat4m44h45aq
A Semantic Memory Bank Assisted by an Embodied Conversational Agents for Mobile Devices
2021
Engineering and Applied Sciences
Our Memory Bank Embodied Conversational Agent (MBECA) is used to interact with the patient and ease the interaction with new devices. ...
In this paper, we propose an approach that exploits semantic technologies and Embodied Conversational Agents to help patients training cognitive abilities using mobile devices. ...
shown that user can efficaciously form a working Alliance relationship with a non-human agent (i.e., a virtual coach) [8] . ...
doi:10.11648/j.eas.20210601.11
fatcat:t4bnlei6wbbmnma5wkvpk5zioa
Knowledge and Organizations Literature Review: 1994-1999
1999
Social Science Research Network
This is followed by an overview of intra-organizational knowledge sharing research. ...
The report overviews and synthesizes literature on various perspectives on knowledge in organizations. Knowledge-based view of the firm is compared to the transaction economics view of the firm. ...
supervisors and uses behavior-based controls
Client control: The hiring firm has alternative access to relevant knowledge and is able to make professionals invest in relationship-specific assets. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1269036
fatcat:6b4nvbyfdneglkfpdqoozt2hcy
Critical Health Communication Method as Embodied Practice of Resistance: Culturally Centering Structural Transformation Through Struggle for Voice
2019
Frontiers in Communication
The body of the academic as a methodological site decolonizes the capitalist framework of knowledge production through its voicing of an openly resistive politics that stands in defiance to the neoliberal ...
Through the re-working of method as embodied resistance that is explicitly socialist in its commitment to imagining health, culture-centered interventions imagine and practice Marxist advocacy and activist ...
A key actor includes an errant agent that partakes in contract substitution during hire and post-hire. ...
doi:10.3389/fcomm.2019.00067
fatcat:gneh5av3bfcctj63kydtjfsdbm
A Smartphone-based Healthcare Chatbot to Promote Self-Management of Chronic Pain (SELMA): A Pilot Randomized Control Trial (Preprint)
2019
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
but also to build a working alliance between a participant and the TBHC. ...
Participants of the intervention group replied with an average answer ratio of 0.71 (SD 0.20) to 200 (SD 58.45) conversations initiated by SELMA. ...
Conflicts of Interest TK is affiliated with the Center for Digital Health Interventions (www.c4dhi.org), a joint initiative of the Department of Management, Technology and Economics at ETH Zurich and the ...
doi:10.2196/15806
pmid:32242820
fatcat:qlwgskpos5gsln3u3hyqjoheb4
The Racial Formation of Chatbots
2014
CLCWeb
These conversation agents are often represented as text or disembodied voices. ...
Marino explores the ways racial identity is constructed through the embodied performance of chatbots and what that indicates for human identity construction on the internet. ...
A chatbot is a program designed to converse with an interactor. ...
doi:10.7771/1481-4374.2560
fatcat:qygoztgew5gdtbwzeznnu4wokq
Expressions of Relational Power in Nato Discourse: Cooperation with Former Adversaries
2018
International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION
The dissolution of the Soviet Empire in 1991 has challenged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to grapple with an issue that had been avoided and postponed during the Cold War - how to give specific ...
This paper examines the galvanizing role of language in forging a solid discourse aimed at initiating and consolidating cooperation between the Alliance and its former adversaries in the aftermath of the ...
Yet our alliance must be even more an agent of change. ...
doi:10.1515/kbo-2018-0103
fatcat:7ogjpedvlfblfioo265grp725q
The Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Management
[chapter]
2015
The Essentials of Knowledge Management
An analysis of the theoretical foundations of knowledge management reveals a healthy arena with a strong foundation and clear directions for future work. ...
Knowledge management has emerged as an important field for practice and research in information systems. ...
A strategic decision to correct knowledge deficiencies through alliances is a more subtle decision than merely a make-versus-buy knowledge choice. ...
doi:10.1057/9781137552105_3
fatcat:jwdmgcy2qzhrhc5ayfvxkhlafu
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