International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue on collaboration, cooperation and conflict in dialogue systems
Planning English Sentences
Modeling coping behavior in virtual humans: don't worry, be happy
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Mining and summarizing customer reviews
Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Interactive Storytelling with Literary Feelings
ACII '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Persuasive Technology Design --- A Rhetorical Approach
PERSUASIVE '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Persuasive Technology
Integrating Planning and Dialogue in a Lifestyle Agent
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
The Next Step towards a Function Markup Language
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Persuasive system design: state of the art and future directions
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
SemEval-2007 task 14: affective text
SemEval '07 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
How was your day?: a companion ECA
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
SRST: a storytelling model using rhetorical relations
TIDSE'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment
Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent
IVA'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
'How was your day?': an architecture for multimodal ECA systems
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
'How was your day?': an affective companion ECA prototype
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
System Personality and Persuasion in Human-Computer Dialogue
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
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Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) are poised to constitute a specific category within persuasive systems, in particular through their ability to support affective dialogue. One possible approach consists in using ECA as virtual coaches or personal assistants and to make persuasion part of a dialogue game implementing specific argumentation or negotiation features. In this paper, we explore an alternative framework, which emerges from the long-term development of ECA as “Companions” supporting free conversation with the user, rather than task-oriented dialogue. Our system aims at influencing user attitudes as part of free conversation, albeit on a limited set of topics. We describe the implementation of a Companion ECA to which the user reports on his working day, and which can assess the user’s emotional attitude towards daily events in the office, trying to influence such attitude using affective strategies derived from a narrative model. This discussion is illustrated through examples from a first fully-implemented prototype.