Fabulation, Machine Agents, and Spiritually Authorizing Encounters

Culture-Specific First Meeting Encounters between Virtual Agents

We present our concept of integrating culture as a computational parameter for modeling multimodal interactions with virtual agents. As culture is a social rather than a psychological notion, its influence is evident in interactions, where cultural patterns of behavior and interpretations mismatch. Nevertheless, taking culture seriously its influence penetrates most layers of agent behavior pla...

Spiritually and religiously oriented health interventions.

Controlled intervention studies offer considerable promise to better understand relationships and possible mechanisms between spiritual and religious factors and health. Studies examining spiritually augmented cognitive-behavioral therapies, forgiveness interventions, different meditation approaches, 12-step fellowships, and prayer have provided some evidence, albeit modest, of efficacy in impr...

Human Values for Authorizing Persuasive Multimedia Contents

This paper attempts to answer what should be taken into consideration to authorize persuasive multimedia contents, especially in the ad domain. Being persuasive is the essential property of ads, as simply delivering information may not be sufficient to persuade those who are exposed to them. On authorizing persuasive multimedia contents, much has been discussed from a technological and technica...

Machine Learning for Intelligent Agents

Pastoral care for mentally and spiritually confused patients.