Symbiotic value of an embodied agent in language learning

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 2137-2146

  Massaro, Dominic W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTER CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS; PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS; SPEECH DISABILITIES; SPEECH TRAINING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 12344298290     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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