Chatbots are intelligent conversational agents that can interact with users through natural
languages. As chatbots can perform a variety of tasks, many companies have committed …

Argumentation and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) are closely related, as in the
recent years, Argumentation has been used for providing Explainability to AI. Argumentation …

Conversational agents can provide valuable cognitive and/or emotional assistance to
elderly users or people with cognitive impairments who often have difficulties in organizing …

Zusammenfassung In naher Zukunft werden Roboter immer häufiger in den
Lebensbereichen von Alltagsnutzerinnen und-nutzern anzutreffen sein. Sehr deutlich wird …

Conversational agents aim to offer an alternative to traditional methods for humans to
engage with technology. This can mean to reduce the effort to complete a task using …

Relational Agents'(RAs) ability to maintain socio-emotional relationships with users can be
an asset to COVID-19 patients. The goal of this research was to identify principles for …

We explored the impact of depth of knowledge on conversational agents and human
perceptions in a virtual reality (VR) environment. We designed experimental conditions with …

Within the area of intelligent User Interfaces, we propose what we call Sentient Embodied
Conversational Agents (SECAs): virtual characters able to engage users in complex …

In this paper, we present a process to investigate the effects of transfer learning for automatic
facial expression recognition from emotions to pain. To this end, we first train a VGG16 …

Abstract Within Human-Computer Interaction, there has recently been an important turn to
embodied and voice-based interaction. In this chapter, we discuss our ongoing research on …