Virtual Health Agents

Adherence to technology-mediated insomnia treatment: a meta-analysis, interviews, and focus groups

Help, I need some body - The effect of embodiment on playful learning

Children with a chronic disease like diabetes need to learn how to self manage their disease. Knowledge about their condition is indispensable to reach this goal. Within the European project ALIZ-E a robot companion is being developed that should, among others attributes, have the capability to educate children. In this paper, a virtual agent on...

Effects of reliance support on team performance by advising and adaptive autonomy

Problems with estimating trust in information sources are common in time constraining and ambiguous situations and often lead to a decrease of team performance. Humans lack the resources to track the integrity of information and thus tend to over- or under-rely on advice from support systems. Two types of adaptive team support have been...

Intelligent Assistants in Crisis Management: From PDA to TDA

This paper discusses a variety of potential applications of intelligent assistants, from personal digital assistant (PDA) to team digital assistant (TDA). We identify two challenges that arise when developing intelligent assistants in crisis management and give an overview of the different technologies that could be used to address these...

'Proximal' and 'distal' in language and cognition: Evidence from deictic demonstratives in Dutch

In this paper we examine the differences in use between distal and proximal demonstrative terms (e.g., singular "this" and "that", and plural "these" and "those" in English). The proximal-distal distinction appears to be made in all languages and therefore promises to be an important window on the cognitive mechanisms underlying language...

Multimodal reference to objects: An empirical approach