Many students have difficulties with specifying, planning and carrying out their individual master thesis project within the nominal time allotted to it in their study programme. We propose to explore the potential of using virtual agents as buddies for the master thesis execution phase. A Learn2Learn buddy that matches with learning styles will be prototyped and tested with representatives of ...

We compared nonverbal expressive behavior across matched and mismatched extravert/introvert pairs. We found that participants’ gestures changed over time, adapting to the gesture style of their partner. Results will be used as the basis for the implementation of adaptable personality expression in interactive virtual agents.

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Agents contributing to (online) debate systems often have different areas of expertise. This must be considered if we want to define a decision making process based on the output of such a system. Distinguishing agents on the basis of their areas of expertise also opens an interesting perspective: when a debate is deemed “controversial”, calling an additional expert may be a natural way to make...

The aim of this paper is to identify and provide a discussion about aspects related to benefits of Intelligent Truck Parking (ITP) for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) and their effects on different stakeholders. Most existing work has narrowly focused on benefits for private cars and does not include the user perspective. In this paper, a review of previous work helps identify benefit areas and sta...