Fully Embodied Conversational Avatars: Making Communicative Behaviors Autonomous

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-64

  Cassell, J ^a   Vilhjalmsson H ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatars; Communicative behaviors; Embodied conversational agents; Lifelike

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042878933     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010027123541     Document Type: Article

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