A conversational agent as museum guide - Design and evaluation of a real-world application

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3661 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 329-343

  Kopp, Stefan ^a   Gesellensetter, Lars ^b   Krämer, Nicole C ^c   Wachsmuth, Ipke ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION THEORY; MUSEUMS; PERSONNEL; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION; PUBLIC COMPUTER MUSEUM;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33646073105     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11550617_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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