Social Agents
DIALOGUES WITH EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS. In previous projects I was involved in a research aiming at developing a "mind" of a 'Believable' Embodied Conversational Agents. My interest was focused on the 'simulation of 'believable' dialogues between a User and an Agent by combining appropriately verbal and non verbal communicative acts. We also studied how dialogue moves can made independent of the 'Body' that is employed to implement the agent (3D face, 2D animated character or others). To this aim, we defined a XML-like markup language (APML) in which the 'meanings' to be attached to every component of a sentence are specified. We concluded our prototype implementations with systematic evaluation studies. This research was made in cooperation with the Department of Education Sciences, University of Roma 3, the Department of Computer and System Sciences, University of Roma 'La Sapienza' and the University of Reading.
Recent publications:- F. de Rosis, N. Novielli, V. Carofiglio, A. Cavalluzzi, B. De Carolis
User modeling and adaptation in health promotion dialogs with an animated character
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Dialog systems for health communications archive Volume 39 Issue 5, October 2006 Pages 514 - 531 Elsevier Science San Diego, USA - N. Novielli,I. Mazzotta, B. De Carolis, S. Pizzutilo
Nicole Novielli, Irene Mazzotta, De Carolis B, Sebastiano Pizzutilo (2011). Analysing user's reactions in advice-giving dialogues with a socially intelligent ECA.
COGNITIVE PROCESSING, vol. 10/2011
User Mode
Recent publications:- B. De Carolis, S. Ferilli, N. Novielli
Recognizing the User Social Attitude in Multimodal Interaction in Smart Environments
AmI 2012: 240-255