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AbstractWe analysed a corpus of enacted police interviews to get insight into the social behaviour of interviewees and police officers in this setting. We (exhaustively) collected the terms used to...
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AbstractWe evaluate an algorithm which computes the responses of an agent that plays the role of a suspect in simulations of police interrogations. The algorithm is based on a cognitive model - the...
View ArticleThe recognition of acted interpersonal stance in police interrogations and...
AbstractThis paper reports on judgement studies regarding the perception of interpersonal stances taken by humans playing the role of a suspect in a police interrogation setting. Our project aims at...
View ArticleAn ASAP Realizer-Unity3D Bridge for Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications
AbstractModern game engines such as Unity make prototyping and developing experiences for virtual and mixed reality contexts increasingly accessible and efficient, and their value has long been...
View ArticleA Demonstration of the ASAP Realizer-Unity3D Bridge for Virtual and Mixed...
AbstractModern game engines such as Unity make prototyping and developing experiences in virtual and mixed reality environments increasingly accessible and efficient, and their value has long been...
View ArticleSelecting and Expressing Communicative Functions in a SAIBA-Compliant Agent...
AbstractIn SAIBA-compliant agent systems, the Function Markup Language (FML) is used to describe the agent’s communicative functions that are transformed into utterances accompanied with appropriate...
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