Nonverbal behavior generator for embodied conversational agents

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

Volumn 4133 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 243-255

  Lee, Jina ^a   Marsella, Stacy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MOTION PICTURES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

BEHAVIOR GENERATION RULES; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS (ECA); NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR GENERATOR;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 33749551956     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11821830_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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