Social-psychological origins of feelings of presence: Creating social presence with machine-generated voices

Media Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-45

  Lee, Kwan Min ^a   Nass, Clifford ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 13844267033     PISSN: 15213269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S1532785XMEP0701_2     Document Type: Review

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