We describe a plan-based agent architecture that models misunderstandings in cooperative NL agent communication; it exploits a notion of coherence in dialogue based on the idea that the explicit and implicit goals which can be identiied by interpreting a conversational turn can be related with the previous explicit / implicit goals of the interactants. Misunderstandings are hypothesized when th...

This study explored associations between the personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with either a virtual agent or a real human. The animated graphical agent, the Responsive Agent, responded to real human subjects’' storytelling behavior, using appropriately timed nonverbal (contingent) feedback. Interactants’' personal-Words. The results reveale...

Conventionally, human-controlled and machine-controlled virtual characters are studied separately under different theoretical frameworks based on the ontological nature of particular character. However, in recent years, technological advancement has made boundaries between human machine agency increasingly blurred. This manuscript proposes a framework that can explain how various characters, re...

To self-present in the EFL classroom is a key productive skill for an learner whether beginner or advanced. self-represent empowerment option student who would rather ward off arbitrary identity attribution judgements. Given critical role played by as host to complicated network of cultural backgrounds, acknowledgment does not have be solely commensurate with curriculum-related obligation discl...

The current chapter presents an overview of a line research that focuses on the behavioral dynamics arbitrarily applicable relational responding (AARRing), and implications this for on-going development frame theory (RFT) itself. Specifically, integration two recent conceptual developments within RFT are described. first these is multi-dimensional, multi-level (MDML) framework second differenti...

Langerin is a C-type lectin specifically expressed in Langerhans cells. As recently shown for HIV, Langerin is thought to capture pathogens and mediate their internalisation into Birbeck Granules for elimination. However, the precise functions of Langerin remain elusive, mostly because of the lack of information on its binding properties and physiological ligands. Based on recent reports that L...

Prior work has shown that a robot which uses politeness modifiers in its speech is perceived more favorably by human interactants, as compared to a robot using more direct instructions. However, the findings to-date have been based soley on data aquired from the standard university pool, which may introduce biases into the results. Moreover, the work does not take into account the potential mod...

Robots are poised to fill a growing number of roles in todays society. In future, we could have robots expected to behave as companion in our home, offices etc. Moving to social robotics imply to address several issues related to human-robot interactions for instance, how the robot can develop an attentional mechanism and select an interacting agent among several interactants. We took our inspi...

To be perceived as believable partners in human-machine interactions, virtual agents have to express adequate social attitudes. The social attitude expressed by an agent should reflect the social situation of the interaction. The agent ought to take into account its role and its social relation toward its interactants when deciding how to react in the interaction. To build such an agent able to...