Conversation game: talking bacteria

Talking Through Your Arse: Sensing Conversation with Seat Covers

People move in characteristic ways during conversation and these movements correlate with their level of particpation. For example, speakers normally gesture significantly more than listeners. These visible, overt movements are normally analysed using full body video or motion capture. Here we explore the potential of a ’minimal’ approach to sensing these participatory movements in part of the ...

Talking TOR: a conversation with Joe Heitman and Rao Movva.

Talking NPCs in a Virtual Game World

This paper describes the KomParse system, a natural-language dialog system in the three-dimensional virtual world Twinity. In order to fulfill the various communication demands between nonplayer characters (NPCs) and users in such an online virtual world, the system realizes a flexible and hybrid approach combining knowledge-intensive domainspecific question answering, task-specific and domain-...

Gendered Conversation in a Social Game-Streaming Platform

Online social media and games are increasingly replacing offline social activities. Social media is now an indispensable mode of communication; online gaming is not only a genuine social activity but also a popular spectator sport. With support for anonymity and larger audiences, online interaction shrinks social and geographical barriers. Despite such benefits, social disparities such as gende...

Huggable Communication Medium Maintains Level of Trust during Conversation Game

There have been several attempts in recent years to develop a remote communication device using sensory modalities other than speech that would induce a user's positive experience with his/her conversation partner. Specifically, Hugvie is a human-shaped pillow as well as a remote communication device enabling users to combine a hugging experience with telecommunication to improve the quality of...