In this paper we describe the computational and architectural requirements for systems which support real-time multimodal interaction with an embodied conversational character. We argue that the three primary design drivers are real-time multithreaded entrainment, processing of both interactional and propositional information, and an approach based on a functional understanding of human face-to...

In this position paper, we argue that current windowing systems and toolkits, which set the foundations for the development of interactive systems, do not satisfy the software requirements for implementing state of the art user interfaces. New styles of interaction require the dynamic configuration of multiple processors and interaction resources into a uniform computational and interactional s...

Abstract This paper uses a discourse-rhetorical approach to analyze how Ontario midwives and their clients interactionally accomplish the healthcare communicative process of “informed choice.” Working with four excerpts from recorded visits between Ontario midwives and women, the analysis focuses on the discursive rendering during informed choice conversations of two contrasting kinds of eviden...

In this paper we describe the computational and architectural requirements for systems which support real-time multimodal interaction with an embodied conversational character. We argue that the three primary design drivers are real-time multithreaded entrainment, processing of both interactional and propositional information, and an approach based on a functional understanding of human face-to...

While drawing on a limited field of articles and chapters on courage, the editors of The Psychology of Courage: modern research on an ancient virtue have postulated a viable history of the evolution of courage in psychology and chosen a select set of articles which advocate the influence of some of the more modern approaches to psychological thought, while relying only slightly on the historica...

Marc-Emmanuel Perrin Télécom ParisTech & CNRS LTCI UMR 5141 46, rue Barrault 75013 Paris, France [email protected] Abstract Increasingly portable and wearable computing devices offer a rich interactional capability for multi-surface environments. We argue that these environments offer an exciting opportunity for collaborative and dynamic interactions that will require us t...

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The authors examined the relationships between 2 "personality" dimensions (Approach and Fear Avoidance) and 2-way active avoidance learning performance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Contrary to expectations (based on prior rodent studies), higher fearfulness facilitated both earlier appearance and acquisition of the shuttlebox avoidance responses, especially in the less exploratory and ac...

Therapeutic work with the client's present moment experience in existential therapy was studied by means of conversation analysis. Using publicly available video recordings of therapy sessions as data, an existential therapist's practice of guiding a client into immediacy, or refocusing the talk on a client's immediate experience, was described and compared with a therapist's corresponding acti...

This paper presents a new direction for managing the speech recognition errors of a computer with spoken dialogue functions. Our approach uses an implicit control of human voice prosody by focusing on human behavior characteristics, i.e., interactional synchrony at the prosodic level as one of errorprevention methods. In this paper, we introduce a simple experiment to examine the same prosodic ...