Usability and acceptability studies of conversational virtual human technology

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2004 Workshop - 5th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-8

  Guinn, Curry ^a   Hubal, Robert ^a   Frank, Geoffrey ^a   Schwetzke, Henry ^a   Zimmer, James ^a   Backus, Sarah ^a   Deterding, Robin ^b   Link, Michael ^a   Armsby, Polly ^a   Caspar, Rachel ^a   Flicker, Laura ^a   Visscher, Wendy ^a   Meehan, Amanda ^a   Zelon, Harvey ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DEVELOPED APPLICATIONS; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FULL BODY; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE; USAGE DATA; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

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EID: 30144433587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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