We propose a communication activation robot and evaluate effectiveness of communication activation. As an example of application, we developed the system participating in a quizformed party game called NANDOKU quiz on a multi-modal conversation robot SCHEMA, and we conducted an experiment in a laboratory to evaluate its capability of activation in group communication. We evaluated interaction i...

Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are Web tools that inform citizens about the political stances of parties (and/or candidates) that participate in upcoming elections. The traditional process that they follow is to call the users and the parties to state their position in a set of policy statements, usually grouped into meaningful categories (e.g., external policy, economy, society, etc). Havin...

While the dialogue functions of speech in two-party dialogue have been extensively studied, there has been much less work on either multi-party communication, multimodal communication, and especially vision in a multi-party face-to-face setting. In this paper we report on one such effort to apply state of the art real-time visual processing to enhance a dialogue model of multi-party communicati...

one of the non- judicial enforcements which is addressed by some legal systems in order to preserving rights of a contracting party against breach of obligation of other party, is the right for sale of goods in self-help type by the damaged party .this enforcements was predicted and addressed in both vienna convention for international sale of goods and iranian legal system. but it is still unk...

the legislator has not an explicit view about revision to judgments based on definitive oath. this point has caused disagreement between judges and lawyers. such disagreement may be entitled the losing party to petition in revision court in one case and deprive other losing party from it in similar case. in addition, the lawyers doubt in basis of rule in article 369 of civil procedure code base...

This paper describes the creation of a digital improvisational theatre game, called Party Quirks, that allows a human user to improvise a scene with synthetic actors according to the rules of the real-world version of the game. The AI actor behaviors are based on our study of communication strategies between real-life actors on stage and the fuzzy concepts that they employ to define and portray...

In the late 1990s and through 2001, consumer activists protested Nike’s alleged “sweatshops” around the globe. This was a new sort of protest that went beyond the picket lines and boycotts of the past – this protest extensively used email and listservs to spread messages and mobilize action at an unprecedented pace and for a very low cost (Peretti and Micheletti 2011). Nike responded to the con...

Privacy is an important issue in multi-party collaborative problems that are conventionally dealt with distributed algorithms. To get the solution, the participants need to share their private information, resulting in privacy loss. Several multiagent algorithms try to reduce privacy loss by reducing the amount of shared private information among the agents. To address the privacy issue in mult...

The EUROMED-ETS schema provides a robust security framework for telemedical applications operating over the World Wide Web. It is based on a trusted third party architecture under which certificate authorities store the public-key certificates of participating hospitals and medical practitioners. Digital signatures are used to provide peer and data origin authentication, and, in combination wit...