The Effect of Rapport on Delegation to Virtual Agents

in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) (in press)

Semantic and Interactive Search in an Advanced Note-Taking App for Learning Material

in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International) (2022, June)

Note-taking apps on tablets are increasingly becoming the go-to space for managing learning material as a student. In particular, digital note-taking presents certain advantages over traditional pen-and ... [more ▼]

Note-taking apps on tablets are increasingly becoming the go-to space for managing learning material as a student. In particular, digital note-taking presents certain advantages over traditional pen-and-paper approaches when it comes to organizing and retrieving a library of notes thanks to various search functionalities. This paper presents improvements to the classic textual-input-based search field, by introducing a semantic search that considers the meaning of a user’s search terms and an automatic question-answering process that extracts the answer to the user’s question from their notes for more efficient information retrieval. Additionally, visual methods for finding specific notes are proposed, which do not require the input of text by the user: through the integration of a semantic similarity metric, notes similar to a selected document can be displayed based on common topics. Furthermore, a fully interactive process allows one to search for notes by selecting different types of dynamically generated filters, thus eliminating the need for textual input. Finally, a graph-based visualization is explored for the search results, which clusters semantically similar notes closer together to relay additional information to the user besides the raw search results. [less ▲]

Editorial: Socio-Technical Ecologies – Design for Human-Machine Systems

in Frontiers in Robotics and AI | Socio-Technical Ecologies: Design for Human-Machine Systems (2022)

Theory of Mind and Delegation to Robotic Virtual Agents

in Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (2022)

Why Do We Delegate to Intelligent Virtual Agents? Influencing Factors on Delegation Decisions

in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) (2021, November)

Virtual Agent Representation for Critical Transactions

in Proceedings of the 12th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) (2021, September)

Student Response Systems in Remote Teaching

in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International) (2021, July)

Lifelike Computing Systems Workshops (LIFELIKE 2020 & 2021)

in Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Workshop on Lifelike Computing Systems (LIFELIKE) (2021)

Self-improving System Integration: Mastering Continuous Change

in Future Generation Computer Systems (2020)

Forest SaVR – A Virtual-Reality Application to Raise Awareness of Deforestation

in Proceedings of the 17th GI VR/AR Workshop (VAR) (2020, September)