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Marilyn Walker
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Jurassic is (Almost) All You Need: Few-Shot Meaning-to-Text Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue
One challenge with open-domain dialogue systems is the need to produce truthful, high-quality responses on any topic. We aim to improve the quality and coverage of Athena, an Alexa Prize dialogue system. We ex...
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The Impact of Multi-character Story Distribution and Gesture on Children’s Engagement
Effective storytelling relies on engagement and interaction. This work develops an automated software platform for telling stories to children and investigates the impact of two design choices on children’s en...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Building Community and Commitment with a Virtual Coach in Mobile Wellness Programs
FittleBot is virtual coach provided as part of a mobile application named Fittle that aims to provide users with social support and motivation for achieving the user’s health and wellness goals. Fittle’s welln...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Judging IVA Personality Using an Open-Ended Question
Judgments of personality typically employ ratings of Big Five scale items such as “How emotionally stable is this person?” with choices from 1 (least) to 5 (most). Such questions focus raters’ attention on an ...
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Bossy or Wimpy: Expressing Social Dominance by Combining Gaze and Linguistic Behaviors
This paper examines the interaction of verbal and nonverbal information for conveying social dominance in intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). We expect expressing social dominance to be useful in applications r...
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Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents
A significant goal in multi-modal virtual agent research is to determine how to vary expressive qualities of a character so that it is perceived in a desired way. The “Big Five” model of personality offers a p...
