This study presents and empirically validates a model that describes user adoption behavior
towards email notification interface agents from the end-user perspective. In addition to the …

The objective to develop more human-centred, personalized and at the same time more
engaging speech-based interactive systems immediately leads to the metaphor of an …

There has been a growing interest in designing multi-agent based interactive dramas. A key
research challenge faced in the design of these systems is to support open-ended user …

Creating interactive applications with multiple virtual characters comes along with many
challenges that are related to different areas of expertise. The definition of context-sensitive …

Dialogue management technology has developed rapidly over the years resulting in real-
time applications like telephony directories, timetable enquiries, and in-car applications …

Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been develo**
very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training …

This contribution presents and discusses Scenejo as an experimental platform for Interactive
Digital Storytelling, focusing on the authoring process as initial viewpoint for its …

Narrative time has an important role to play in Interactive Storytelling (IS). The prevailing
approach to controlling narrative time has been to use implicit models that allow only limited …

Health coaching applications can include (embodied) conversational agents as coaches.
The development of these agents requires an interdisciplinary cooperation between eHealth …

Abstract We present Wide Ruled, an authoring tool for the creation of generative stories. It is
based on the Universe author-goal-based model of story generation, and extends this model …