This project has been carried out in the context of recent major developments in botics and
more widespread usage of virtual agents in personal and professional sphere. The general …

Whether artificial intelligence might benefit human well-being in every sense is an open
question. I consider it in the following essay, first putting to one side standard accounts of …

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How does AI affect death matters and the digital beyond?
How are death and dying handled in our digital age? AI for Dying and Death covers a broad …

Our research is carried out in the context of the ongoing process of introducing artificial
intelligence in the area of social interaction with people, with a particular emphasis on …

In this paper we present a Multimodal Echoborg interface to explore the effect of different
embodiments of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) in an interaction. We compared …

INVITATION Page 1 A Multidisciplinary Investigation to Unravel the Complexity of the Sense
of Embodiment in Teleoperation ISBN (print): 978-90-365-5880-8 ISBN (digital): 978-90-365-5881-5 …

This article revisits a forgotten, late project by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram: the
'cyranoid'studies he conducted from 1977 to 1984. These investigations, inspired by the play …

Voice and video calls are part of most people's everyday life. These are examples of
technology being used to mediate social interaction between humans. Virtual and …

This thesis compares three channels of communication for virtual assistants; text, voice, and
avatar, in terms of trust elicited from users. Participants played through a series of three …

The evolution of the concept of Speaker Diarization using LSTM facilitated the process of
understanding the speaker identities for specific segments of input audio stream data …