Close encounters of the virtual kind: Agents simulating copresence

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 393-412

  Gerhard, Michael ^a   Moore, David ^b   Hobbs, Dave ^c  

^a Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST)   (Germany)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; USER INTERFACES;

AGENT TECHNOLOGIES; CYBERAXIS; VIRTUAL ART GALLERY; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 17044427516     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510590910219     Document Type: Article

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