The use of surveillance systems has grown exponentially during the last decade. Moreover, the agency paradigm has shown to be suitable for the design and development of complex systems such as surveillance systems. They provide autonomy, reactivity, social ability and pro-activeness to carry out surveillance tasks in a semi-automatic way, collaborating with users in a more effective manner. Age...

Expectations and emotions require pervasive control over cognitive processes of artificial agents. In this work we discuss an enhanced architecture for cognitive agents guiding and orienting reasoning processes according to different kinds of expectations and affective states. They are assumed to involve cognitive processes including deliberation and practical reasoning (where emotional biases ...

We propose a cognitively motivated vertically layered two-pass agent architecture for realizing responsiveness, reactivity, and pro-activeness of smart objects, smart environments, virtual characters, and virtual place controllers, that is controllers for lighting and weather conditions. Being cognitively motivated, our approach aims to respect the cognitive demands of a human being, in order t...

Interruptions are integral elements of natural spontaneous human interaction. Both competitive and cooperative interruption serve a distinct role in the flow of conversation. This paper analyzes their differences with features, change and activeness, employing audio, visual, and disfluency data. These features are able to capture differences between the two types of interruptions better than av...

The development and evolution of the ConversationBuilder (CB) generic collaboration environment has now been proceeding for four years. In this time we have learned many lessons concerning issues in the design of collaboration support environments. In this paper we reeect on our experiences, draw out these lessons, and discuss how we are adapting future versions of CB. In particular we discuss ...

Researchers focus on the efforts of teachers to improve learning outcomes. examined use e-learning in motivating student achievement The influence activity Student motivation reason for low quality makes author interested studying this problem. This paper contributes using methods, activeness, and can find a digital-based process, teaching methods students' towards authors see outcomes after e-...