This paper reports on an experiment that investigates the effect of interacting with a
personality-driven embodied conversational agent (ECA) on the perceived social presence …

The attribution of traits plays an important role as a heuristic for how we interact with others.
Many psychological models of personality are analytical in that they derive a classification …

We report on an experiment that investigates the effect of a personality-driven embodied
conversational agent (ECA) on perceived social presence and game experience in virtual …

This paper proposes a precise approach of achieving a visual transformation of the isolated
speech commands. The idea is to smartly combine the effective speech processing and …

With the development of Internet technologies, chat environments have migrated from PCs
to mobile devices. Conversations have moved from phone calls and text messages to …

This paper proposes a novel approach, based on the adaptive rate processing and analysis,
of achieving a visual transformation of the isolated speech. The idea is to smartly combine …

The increasing application of Conversational Agents (CAs) is rapidly changing the way
customers access services. In practice, however, CAs are frequently flawed, such as they …

Conversational Agents (CAs) are changing the way people interact in their daily lives.
Specifically, CAs such as chatbots or voice assistants are increasingly covering services …

Nowadays societies are clearly bound to social networking through the Internet. It is
common to find out people posting remarks, quotes or moods in social media. Leaders …

It has been extensively argued that individualizing a serious game to the characteristics of its
players is a major contributing factor to its effectiveness. To realize this individualization, the …