Helper agent: Designing an assistant for human-human interaction in a virtual meeting space

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 57-64

  Isbister, Katherine ^a   Nakanishi, Hideyuki ^b   Ishida, Toru ^b   Nass, Cliff ^c  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural communication; Human human interaction; Social interface agents; Virtual meeting place

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HUMAN-HUMAN COMMUNICATION; HUMAN-HUMAN INTERACTIONS; INTERFACE AGENT; NEW APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL AGENTS; SOCIAL INTERFACES; TO EFFECT; VIRTUAL MEETINGS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TELECONFERENCING; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; HUMAN-HUMAN INTERACTION; INTERFACE AGENT; SOCIAL INTERFACE AGENT; VIRTUAL MEETING PLACE;

EID: 0033705727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/332040.332407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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