Introducing Human-like Hearing Perception in Intelligent Virtual Agents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 733-740

  Herrero, Pilar ^a   De Antonio, Angélica ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agents; Architecture; Audio; Awareness; CSCW; Focus; Humanlike; Knowledge; Nimbus; Perception

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUDIO; AWARENESS; CSCW; HUMAN-LIKE; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE; NIMBUS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 1142268756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860690.860693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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