Animating an interactive conversational character for an educational game system

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 183-190

  Corradini, Andrea ^a   Mehta, Manish ^a   Bernsen, Niels Ole ^a   Charfuelan, Marcela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Edutainment; Embodied conversational agent; Multimodal output; User interface

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FACE RECOGNITION; GAME THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EDUTAINMENT; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; MULTIMODAL OUTPUT;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33644601178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1040830.1040872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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