The ECA study: what next?

The Resurrecting Duckling - What Next?

In the context of the security of wireless ad hoc networks, we previously explored the problem of secure transient association between a master and a slave device in the absence of an online authentication server. We introduced the Resurrecting Duckling security policy model to address this problem. Master-slave relationships, however, do not exhaust the range of interesting interactions. We th...

where do we stand and what comes next?

Study on Sensitivity to ECA Behavior Parameters

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) provide one possible way of incorporating nonverbal portion of speech into voice based user interfaces. Part of agent’s visual behavior and its appearance is often solved “statically.” There is another possibility to change appearance – dynamically (for example head or eye movements, mouth opening, etc.). Our hypothesis is that some “dynamic” parameters are...

Pharmacogenomics: What is Next?

Pharmacogenomics is moving from a candidate gene strategy to large scale approaches. This is in line with the new paradigm of linking a trait to (a) pathway(s) rather than to single genes. In addition, breakthroughs in genomics offer a non-a priori assessment of implicated genes, expanding the possibilities in pharmacogenomics research. In this review, we discuss the pros and cons of new concep...

What ’ s next ?

Collections of cultural heritage documents are most of the time digitized images. These precious documents are now available on the internet and need manual annotations to make their content accessible and exploitable. Manual annotations are expensive and tedious; hence the use of a collaborative annotation space and the reuse of users’ experiences, by tracing their actions -during the annotati...