Empathy for Max (preliminary project report)

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 541-545

  Backer, Christian ^a   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^b   Prendinger, Helmut ^c   Wachsmuth, Ipke ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affect; Bio signals; Embodied Conversational Agents; Emotion Recognition; Emotion Simulation; Empathy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

BIO-SIGNALS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; EMOTION SIMULATION; EMPATHY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 33646799778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AMT.2005.1505417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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