Group recommender systems introduce a whole set of new challenges for recommender
systems research. The notion of generating a set of recommendations that will satisfy a …

This paper urges that if we wish to give social intelligence to our agents, it pays to look at
how we acquired our social intelligence ourselves. We are born with drives and motives that …

Over the past decade a significant amount of recommender systems research has
demonstrated the benefits of conversational architectures that employ critique-based …

While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

As the video games industry grows and video games become more part of our lives, we are
eager for better gaming experiences. One field in which games still have much to gain is in …

The World Wide Web is a great source of products and services available to people.
Scientists have made a huge effort to create effective strategies to personalize those …

In this paper we propose a computational model for the real time generation of nonverbal
behaviors supporting the expression of interpersonal attitudes for turn-taking strategies and …

In the everyday world people form small conversing groups where social interaction takes
place, and much of the social behavior takes place through managing interpersonal space …

Creating believable virtual agents has long been the focus of artists and scientists. A
believable agent enables the audience to be emotionally involved in a narrative, willingly …

This paper describes a model-based test generation approach for testing autonomous
systems interacting with their environment (ie, world). Unlike other approaches that assume …