Towards a reactive virtual trainer

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

Volumn 4133 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 292-303

  Ruttkay, Zsófia ^a   Zwiers, Job ^a   Van Weibergen, Herwin ^a   Reidsma, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEEDBACK; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENT (IVA); PHYSIOTHERAPY EXERCISES; REACTIVE VIRTUAL TRAINER (RVT); RVT APPLICATIONS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33749541723     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11821830_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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