Modelling the sensory abilities of intelligent virtual agents

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 361-385

  Herrero, Pilar ^a   Greenhalgh, Chris ^b   De Antonio, Angélica ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness; Focus; Human factors; Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs); Nimbus; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444617659     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-005-2921-8     Document Type: Article

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