This paper describes the interactive installation Sissy (Sound-driven, Interactive, Self-conscious SYstem) at the STRP festival. The concept adheres to the design philosophy of slow technology and aims at stimulating relaxation. Sissy is made out of 700 flip dots with a black and white side and it responds to visitors’ movements sensed by a camera. The white dots are coloured through the projec...

In recent years, social commitment based approaches have been proposed to solve problems issuing from previous mentalistic based semantics for agent communication languages. This paper follows the same line of thought since it presents a dialogue game based agent communication language (called DIAGAL) which allows agents to manipulate the public layer of social commitments through dialogue, by ...

Intangible Cultural Heritage is of comparatively high value in culture, economy, science and tourism, which is at its peak of development and utilization. Intangible cultural heritage needs preservation, so the development and utilization of the digital storage of intangible cultural heritage are a subject of theoretical and practical values. Among the various complicated types of intangible cu...

This paper introduces a new multilingual text-to-speech system, which we call Speect (Speech synthesis with extensible architecture), aiming to address the shortcomings of using Festival as a research system and Flite as a deployment system in a multilingual development environment. Speect is implemented in C with a modular object oriented approach and a plugin architecture, aiming to separate ...