Evaluation and validation of a conversational agent embodied in a bookstore

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2615, Issue , 2003, Pages 360-371

  Semeraro, Giovanni ^a   Andersen, Hans H K ^b   Andersen, Verner ^b   Lops, Pasquale ^a   Abbattista, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BOOKSTORES; FACIAL MODELS; AGENT-BASED INTERFACES; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; FACIAL MODEL; GOAL DIRECTED; PROACTIVENESS; TOP DOWN APPROACHES; USER PROFILE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33845285244     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36572-9_28     Document Type: Article

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