The effect of embodied conversational agents' speech quality on users' attention and emotion

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

Volumn 3784 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 652-659

  Chateau, Noël ^a   Maffiolo, Valérie ^a   Pican, Nathalie ^a   Mersiol, Marc ^a  

^a Technology Research Center   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EYE GAZE DATA; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE DATA; SPEECH QUALITIES; VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646820063     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11573548_84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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