AAAI Fall Symposium

TL;DR: A model of socially intelligent tutorial dialog was developed based on politeness theory, and implemented in an agent interface within an online learning system called virtual factory teaching system, which confirmed the hypothesis that learners tend to respond to pedagogical agents as social actors and suggested that research should focus less on the media in which agents are realized, and place more emphasis on the agent's social intelligence.

TL;DR: This paper reviews several widely used perception methods of HRI in social robots and investigates general perception tasks crucial for HRI, such as where the objects are located in the rooms, what objects are in the scene, and how they interact with humans.

TL;DR: This article developed an affective agent research platform that advances the architecture of relational agents and intelligent tutoring systems, realizing non-invasive multimodal real-time sensing of elements of user's affective state and couples this ability with an agent capable of supporting learners by engaging in realtime responsive expressivity.

TL;DR: An implementation in the synthetic characters of the FearNot! anti-bullying education demonstrator is discussed and how far this provides an adequate mechanism for believable behaviour is discussed.