Publications and press

Papers published by the NICE partners

• Abrilian, S., Martin, J.-C. & Buisine, S.: Algorithms for controlling cooperation between output modalities in 2D Embodied Conversational Agents.
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'2003), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ACM Press, 5-7 November 2003, 293-296.

• Bell, L: Linguistic adaptations in spoken human-computer dialogues - Empirical studies of user behavior.
  PhD thesis, dept Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, 2003.

• Bell, L. and Gustafson, J.: Child and Adult Speaker Adaptation during Error Resolution in a Publicly Available Spoken Dialogue System.
  Proceedings of Eurospeech 03, Geneve, Schweiz, 2003.

• Bell, L., Gustafson, J. and Heldner, M.: Prosodic adaptation in human-computer interaction.
  Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 03), Barcelona, Spain, 2003.

• Bernsen, N. O.: When H. C. Andersen is not talking back.
  In Rist, T., Aylet, R., Ballin, D. and Rickel, J. (Eds.): Proceedings of the Fourth International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’2003), Kloster Irsee, Germany, September 15-17, 2003. Berlin: Springer Verlag 2003, 27-30.

• Bernsen, N. O.: Measuring relative target user group success in spoken conversation for edutainment.
  Proceedings of the LREC 2004 Workshop on Multimodal Corpora. Lisbon, Portugal, 25 May 2004, 17-20.

• Bernsen, N. O., Charfuelàn, M., Corradini, A., Dybkjær, L., Hansen, T., Kiilerich, S., Kolodnytsky, M., Kupkin, D., and Mehta, M.: First prototype of conversational H.C. Andersen.
  Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2004), Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy, May 25-28, 2004, 458-461.

• Bernsen, N. O., Charfuelàn, M., Corradini, A., Dybkjær, L., Hansen, T., Kiilerich, S., Kolodnytsky, M., Kupkin, D., and Mehta, M.: Conversational H. C. Andersen. First prototype description.
  Proceedings of the Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS04), Kloster Irsee, Germany, 14-16 June 2004, 305-308.

• Bernsen, N. O. and Dybkjær, L.: Domain-oriented conversation with H.C. Andersen.
  Proceedings of the Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS04), Kloster Irsee, Germany, 14-16 June 2004, 142-153.

• Bernsen, N. O. and Dybkjær, L.: Evaluation of Spoken Multimodal Conversation. Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2004, Pennsylvania, USA, October 2004a. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2004, 38-45.

• Bernsen, N. O. and Dybkjær, L.: Managing domain-oriented spoken conversation. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AMAAS) Conference Workshop on Embodied Conversational Agents: Balanced Perception and Action, New York, 20 July 2004.

• Bernsen, N. O. and Dybkjær, L.: Structured interview-based evaluation of spoken multimodal conversation with H.C. Andersen.
  Proceedings of The International Conference for Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004, South Korea, October 2004. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) 2004, Vol. 1, 277-280.

• Bernsen, N. O., Dybkjær, L., and Kiilerich, S.: Evaluating conversation with Hans Christian Andersen.
  Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04), Lisbon, Portugal, May 25-28, 2004, 1011-1014.

• Boye, J. and Wirén, M.: Robust parsing of utterances in negotiative dialogue.
  Proceedings Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.

• Boye, J. and Wirén, M.: Negotiative spoken-dialogue interfaces to databases.
  Proceedings Diabruck (7th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue), Wallerfangen, Germany, 2003.

• Boye, J., Wiren, M., and Gustafson, J.: Contextual Reasoning in Multimodal Dialogue Systems: Two Case Studies.
  Proceedings of The 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Catalogue'04 , Barcelona, 19-21 July 2004.

• Buisine, S., Abrilian, S., Martin, J.C.: Evaluation of Multimodal Behaviour of Embodied Agents.
  In "From Brows to Trust. Evaluating Embodied Conversational Agents". Edited by Zsófia Ruttkay & Catherine Pelachaud. Book Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series : Volume 7, Kluwer. ISBN 1-4020-2729-X, August 2004.

• Buisine, S., Abrilian, S., Martin, J.C.: Evaluation of Individual Multimodal Behavior of 2D Embodied Agents in Presentation Tasks.
  Proceedings of the Workshop Embodied Conversational Characters as Individuals, Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 15 July 2003.

• Busine, S., Abrilian, S., Rendu, C., Martin, J.-C.: Towards Experimental Specification and Evaluation of Lifelike Multimodal Behavior.
  In: Marriot, A., Pelachaud, C., Rist, T., Ruttkay, S., Vilhjalmsson, H. (Eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied conversational agents - let's specify and evaluate them!, held in conjunction with The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July, 2002.

• Buisine, S., Martin, J.C.: Experimental evaluation of bi-directional multimodal interaction with conversational agents.
  Proceedings of INTERACT'2003, pp. 168-175, Zürich, Switzerland. 2003.

• Buisine, S., Martin, J.C. (In press): Children's and Adults' Multimodal Interaction with 2D Conversational Agents. To appear in Proceedings of CHI'2005, 2-7 April.

• Buisine, S., Martin, J.C., and Bernsen, N.O. (In press): Children's Gesture and Speech in Conversation with 3D Characters. To appear in Proceedings of HCI International 2005, 22-27 July 2005.

• Corradini, A., Bernsen, N. O., Fredriksson, M., Johanneson, L., Königsmann, J., and Mehta, M.: Towards believable behavior generation for embodied conversational agents.
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Visualisation and Interaction Technologies, IV&IT 2004, Krakow, Poland, June 7-9, 2004, in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science 2004 (ICCS 2004).

• Corradini, A., Mehta, M., Bernsen, N. O. and Charfuelán, M.: Animating an Interactive Conversational Character for an Educational Game System. In Riedl, J., Jameson, A., Billsus, D., and Lau, T. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), San Diego, CA, USA, 2005. New York: ACM Press 2005, 183-190.
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• Corradini, A., Mehta, M., Bernsen, N. O., and Martin, J.-C.: Multimodal input fusion in human-computer interaction.
  To appear in Proceedings of the NATO-ASI Conference on Data Fusion for Situation Monitoring, Incident Detection, Alert and Response Management. Yerevan, Armenia, 18-29 August 2003.

• Gustafson, J., Bell, L., Boye, J., Lindström, A. and Wiren, M.: The NICE Fairy-tale Game System.
  Proceedings of SIGdial 04, Boston, 30 April-1 May 2004.

• Gustafson, J, Sjölander, K.: Voice creation for conversational fairy-tale characters.
  Proceedings of the 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University 14-16 juni 2004.

• Gustafson, J, Sjölander, K.: Voice Transformations For Improving Children's Speech Recognition In A Publicly Available Dialogue System.
  In Proceedings of ICSLP02, Colorado, USA, 2002.

• Lindström, A.: English and Other Foreign Linguistic Elements in Spoken Swedish.
  PhD thesis no 887, Linköping University, Sweden, 2004.

• Martin, J.-C., Buisine, S., Abrilian, S.: 2D Gestural and Multimodal Behavior of Users Interacting with Embodied Agents.
  Proceedings of the workshop Embodied Conversational Agents: Balanced Perception and Action, Edited by Catherine Pelachaud, Zsófia Ruttkay & Kris Thorisson. Held during the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, New York, USA, 19-23 July 2004, 34-41.

• Reeves, L.M., Lai, J., Larson, J.A., Oviatt, S., Balaji, T.S., Buisine, S., Collings, P., Cohen, P., Kraal, B., Martin, J.C., McTear, M., Raman, T.V., Stanney, K.M., Su, H., Wang, Q.Y.: Guidelines for multimodal user interface design.
  Communications of the ACM – Special Issue on Multimodal Interfaces, vol. 47(1), pp. 57-59, 2004.

Press releases

• NICE project started (June 2002)

NICE in the media

• I, Computer (English), School Library Journal, April 2005
• Hans on (English), Engineering, February 2005
• Chatting freely with animated historical characters, (English) IST website, 10 February 2005
• Computer-Andersen snart flyvefærdig, (Danish) Fyens Stiftstidende, 15 November 2004
• Digital H.C. Andersen, (Danish) HCA2005, 10 November 2004
• Goddag, hr. H.C. Andersen, (Danish) Kristeligt Dagblad, 4 October 2004
• Digital H.C. Andersen til 35 millioner kroner, (Danish) Computerworld, 24 September 2004
• Tal med H.C. Andersen, (Danish) Ny Viden, 17 September 2004
• Talende maskine, (Danish) TV2/Fyn, the news, 23 July 2004
• Virtuel H.C.Andersen, (Danish/English), DR, P3, De spRøde Heste, 21 July 2004
• H.C.Andersen som pc-punker, (Danish) Fyens Stiftstidende, 4 March 2002