Embodiment in conversational interfaces: Rea

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 520-527

  Cassell, J ^a   Bickmore, T ^a   Billinghurst, M ^a   Campbell, L ^a   Chang, K ^a   Vilhjailmsson, H ^a   Yan, H ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversational characters; Intelligent agents; Multimodal input; Multimodal output

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERACTION; CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS; CONVERSATIONAL CHARACTERS; CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; INPUT UNDERSTANDING; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIMODAL OUTPUT;

GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; MODAL ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL CHARACTERS; MULTIMODAL INPUT/OUTPUT; SOFTWARE PACKAGE REA;

EID: 0032634966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/302979.303150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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