Toward virtual humans

AI Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 96-108

  Swartout, William ^a,b   Gratch, Jonathan ^b   Hill Jr , Randall W ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^b,c,d,e   Marsella, Stacy ^a,c   Rickel, Jeff ^b,f   Traum, David ^b,g  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Intelligent Systems Division   (United States)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^f ISI   (India)

^g Institute for Creative Technology (ICT)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTION REASONING; NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE; TASK REPRESENTATION; VIRTUAL HUMANS; VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED TRAINING SYSTEM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33745966108     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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