Embodied conversational agents: Developing usable agents

Conference Proceedings - IEEE SOUTHEASTCON

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 663-669

  Ventura, John ^a   Ventura, Matthew ^b   Olabe, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

AUDITORY PROPERTIES; KNOWLEDGE-BASED LEARNING; USABLE AGENTS; VISUAL PROPERTIES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 27544465201     PISSN: 10910050     EISSN: 1558058X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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