Understanding the effect of life-like interface agents through users' eye movements

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 108-115

  Prendinger, Helmut ^a   Ma, Chunling ^b   Yingzi, Jin ^b   Nakasone, Arturo ^b   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animated interface agents; Eye tracking; User study; Web based presentation

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXTBOOKS;

ANIMATED INTERFACE AGENTS; EYE TRACKING; USER STUDY; WEB-BASED PRESENTATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 29144461232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1088463.1088484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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