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An Intelligent Personal Agent (IPA) is an agent that has the purpose of helping the user to gain information through reliable resources with the help of knowledge navigation techniques and saving time to search the best content. The agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Amit Kumar , Rahul Dutta , Harbhajan Rai

Recent advances on large language models (LLMs) enable researchers and developers to build autonomous language agents that can automatically solve various tasks and interact with environments, humans, and other agents using natural language…

An interactive vignette is a popular and immersive visual storytelling approach that invites viewers to role-play a character and influences the narrative in an interactive environment. However, it has not been widely used by everyday…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiangnan Xu , Haeseul Cha , Gosu Choi , Gyu-cheol Lee , Yeo-Jin Yoon , Zucheul Lee , Konstantinos Papangelis , Dae Hyun Kim , Juho Kim

Natural language understanding for robotics can require substantial domain- and platform-specific engineering. For example, for mobile robots to pick-and-place objects in an environment to satisfy human commands, we can specify the language…

Recent development in developing humanoid robot poses new challenges to human-machine interaction communication. A major challenge is to develop robots that can behave like and interact with human in the most natural way possible. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Ong Sing Goh , Lance Fung

The development of embodied agents that can communicate with humans in natural language has gained increasing interest over the last years, as it facilitates the diffusion of robotic platforms in human-populated environments. As a step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Identification within media, whether with real or fictional characters, significantly impacts users, shaping their behavior and enriching their social and emotional experiences. Immersive media, like video games, utilize virtual entities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Navid Ashrafi , Vanessa Neuhaus , Francesco Vona , Nicolina Laura Peperkorn , Youssef Shiban , Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

Popular conversational agents frameworks such as Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and Google Actions (gActions) offer unprecedented opportunities for facilitating the development and deployment of voice-enabled AI solutions in various verticals.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Walid Shalaby , Adriano Arantes , Teresa GonzalezDiaz , Chetan Gupta

Manual data annotation is an important NLP task but one that takes considerable amount of resources and effort. In spite of the costs, labeling and categorizing entities is essential for NLP tasks such as semantic evaluation. Even though…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Akila Peiris , Nisansa de Silva

This technical report presents the Drama Engine, a novel framework for agentic interaction with large language models designed for narrative purposes. The framework adapts multi-agent system principles to create dynamic, context-aware…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Martin Pichlmair , Riddhi Raj , Charlene Putney

Large Language Model agents demonstrate potential in solving real-world problems via tools, yet generalist intelligence is bottlenecked by scarce high-quality, long-horizon data. Existing methods collect privacy-constrained API logs or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zexu Sun , Bokai Ji , Hengyi Cai , Shuaiqiang Wang , Lei Wang , Guangxia Li , Xu Chen

When developing a conversational agent, there is often an urgent need to have a prototype available in order to test the application with real users. A Wizard of Oz is a possibility, but sometimes the agent should be simply deployed in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Catarina Moreira , Ana Cristina Mendes , Luísa Coheur , Bruno Martins

This article introduces a reflexion about behavioural specification for interactive and participative agent-based simulation in virtual reality. Within this context, it is neces sary to reach a high level of expressivness in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Pierre De Loor , Favier Pierre-Alexandre

One of the most vital cognitive skills to possess is the ability to make sense of objects, events, and situations in the world. In the current paper, we offer an approach for creating artificially intelligent agents with the capacity for…

Autonomous agents powered by Large Language Models are transforming AI, creating an imperative for the visualization field to embrace agentic frameworks. However, our field's focus on a human in the sensemaking loop raises critical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Vaishali Dhanoa , Anton Wolter , Gabriela Molina León , Hans-Jörg Schulz , Niklas Elmqvist

Immersive authoring provides an intuitive medium for users to create 3D scenes via direct manipulation in Virtual Reality (VR). Recent advances in generative AI have enabled the automatic creation of realistic 3D layouts. However, it is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lei Zhang , Jin Pan , Jacob Gettig , Steve Oney , Anhong Guo

Robotic process automation (RPA) has emerged as the leading approach to automate tasks in business processes. Moving away from back-end automation, RPA automated the mouse-click on user interfaces; this outside-in approach reduced the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yara Rizk , Vatche Isahagian , Scott Boag , Yasaman Khazaeni , Merve Unuvar , Vinod Muthusamy , Rania Khalaf

This survey paper examines the recent advancements in AI agent implementations, with a focus on their ability to achieve complex goals that require enhanced reasoning, planning, and tool execution capabilities. The primary objectives of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tula Masterman , Sandi Besen , Mason Sawtell , Alex Chao

AI for supporting designers needs to be rethought. It should aim to cooperate, not automate, by supporting and leveraging the creativity and problem-solving of designers. The challenge for such AI is how to infer designers' goals and then…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Sebastiaan De Peuter , Antti Oulasvirta , Samuel Kaski

In this paper, we present a demo of an intelligent personal agent called Hey Dona (or just Dona) with virtual voice assistance in student course registration. It is a deployed project in the theme of AI for education. In this digital age…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Vishesh Kalvakurthi , Aparna S. Varde , John Jenq