Starting with the slogan that understanding is a ‘knowledge of causes’, Stephen Grimm and John Greco have argued comes from knowledge dependence relations. Grounding trendiest relation on market, if are correct, then instances grounding should also give rise to understanding. In this paper, I will show prediction correct – does indeed generate in just way anticipate. However, examples not telli...

Abstract Grounding necessitarianism (GN) is the view that full grounds necessitate what they ground. Although GN has been rather popular among philosophers, it faces important counterexamples: For instance, A = [Socrates died] fully C [Xanthippe became a widow]. However, fails to C: could have obtained together with B and Xanthippe were never married], without obtaining. In many cases, debate e...

The ability to recognize the Visual Focus of Attention (VFOA, i.e. what or whom a person is looking at) of people is important for robots or conversational agents interacting with multiple people, since it plays a key role in turn-taking, engagement or intention monitoring. As eye gaze estimation is often impossible to achieve, most systems currently rely on head pose as an approximation, creat...

Online communication channels, especially social web platforms, are rapidly replacing traditional ones. Online platforms allow users to overcome physical barriers, enabling worldwide participation. However, the power of online communication bears an important negative consequence — we are exposed to too much information to process. Too many participants, for example, can turn online public spac...

This study presents synthetic embodied conversational agents, and how they can be used to explore the persuasive potential of real embodied conversational agents. Utilizing a novel Wizard-of-Oz style approach and a direct measure of behavior change we explore whether ‘ideal’ embodied conversational agents have a similar persuasive impact as real people, and demonstrate the importance of visuall...