The taking of turns is a fundamental aspect of dialogue. Since it is difficult to speak and listen
at the same time, the participants need to coordinate who is currently speaking and when …

English Social capital is increasingly regarded by politicians, policy makers and
theoreticians as an antidote to a range of social ills and its absence as a cause of those …

In this paper we present a broad overview of the last 40 years of research on cognitive
architectures. To date, the number of existing architectures has reached several hundred …

This paper describes an international effort to unify a multimodal behavior generation
framework for Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). We propose a three stage model …

The current hierarchical structure of human cognition proposed is indicative of the multi-
factorial and multi-layered construct of giftedness and intelligence. All individuals are …

This work is a review of the online Comparative Table of Cognitive Architectures (the version
that was available at http://bicasymposium. com/cogarch on September 20, 2010). This …

Virtual characters are an important part of many 3D graphical simulations. In entertainment
or training applications, virtual characters might be one of the main mechanisms for creating …

All intelligence relies on search-for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action.
Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been …

Life-like characters are increasingly gaining the attention of researchers and commercial
developers of user interfaces. A strong argument in favor of using such characters in the …

Decisions like these are made by dialogue participants as often as 2–3 times per second.
For a 30 minute conversation that's over 5000 decisions. And that's just a fraction of what …