“But with this I’m embodied”: H.D.’s public photographic portraits, 1913–1956

Developing Applications with HDS

HDS (Heterogeneous Distributed System) is a software framework that tries to simplify the realization of distributed applications and, in particular, of multi-agent systems, by merging the client-server and the peer-to-peer paradigms and by implementing all the interactions among the processes of a system through the exchange of a kind of message that allows the implementation of a large set of...

"How about this weather?" Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents

Social dialogue can be used by an embodied interface agent both to satisfy "interpersonal" goals, such as building rapport with the user and demonstrating the expertise of the agent, and to directly or indirectly satisfy task goals, such as acquiring background information about the user. We describe the ongoing development of an embodied conversational agent that is capable of multimodal input...

"How about this weather?" Social Dialog with Embodied Conversational Agents

People use conversational language to establish and maintain social relationships, as well as to accomplish tasks. Building rapport and common ground through small talk, intimacy through self-disclosure, credibility through linguistic style, social networks through gossip, and "face" through politeness, are all examples of this phenomenon. These uses of language are not important just in purely...

Language is handy but is it embodied?

Part 1 provides Arbib's reflections on the influence of Marc Jeannerod on his career. Part 2 recalls the Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) for the evolution of the language-ready brain, a theory which emphasizes the role of manual action in grounding language evolution, thus giving one meaning for "language is handy". Part 3 then joins in current debates over the notion of whether or not language ...

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