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Computational Linguistics
Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Readings in natural language processing
Integrating reactive and scripted behaviors in a life-like presentation agent
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Deictic and emotive communication in animated pedagogical agents
Embodied conversational agents
BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Design of a Virtual Human Presenter
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Shared reality: physical collaboration with a virtual peer
CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Establishing and maintaining long-term human-computer relationships
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Towards a model of face-to-face grounding
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Towards a common framework for multimodal generation: the behavior markup language
IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AutoTutor: A simulation of a human tutor
Cognitive Systems Research
Virtual humans for assisted health care
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Visualizing the Importance of Medical Recommendations with Conversational Agents
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Evaluation of Justina: A Virtual Patient with PTSD
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
A Virtual Therapist That Responds Empathically to Your Answers
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
IVA '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
IVA '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
How do you like intelligent virtual agents
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies and Workshop for PhD Students in Computing on International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies
Using Agents in Mental Health: A System to Support the Remote Treatment of Major Depression
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
User interactions with an affective nutritional coach
Interacting with Computers
Hospital buddy: a persistent emotional support companion agent for hospital patients
IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
I see, please tell me more: exploring virtual agents as interactive storytellers
HCI'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information: information and interaction for learning, culture, collaboration and business - Volume Part III
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We describe the design and evaluation of a virtual agent that explains health documents to patients. The prevalence and impact of low health literacy is presented as a motivation for such agents, given that face-to-face interaction with health providers is cited as one of the most effective means of communicating with these patients. We analyze the form and distribution of pointing gestures used by experts in explaining health documents, and use this data to develop a computational model of agent-based document explanation. This model is evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. Preliminary results indicate that patients with low health literacy are more satisfied with health document explanation by a virtual agent compared to a human.