An evaluation of virtual human technology in informational kiosks

ICMI'04 - Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 297-302

  Guinn, Curry ^a   Hubal, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Gesture; Natural language; Spoken dialogue system; Virtual humans; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; MICROPHONES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GESTURE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; TRADESHOW; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 14944373050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1027933.1027981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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