From chatterbots to natural interaction - Face to face communication with embodied conversational agents

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2445-2452

  Rehm, Matthias ^a   André, Elisabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b Lab for Multimedia Concepts and Applications   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied conversational agents; Multi party communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; MULTI-PARTY COMMUNICATION; SYNTHETIC AGENTS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 29144473390     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.11.2445     Document Type: Article

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