Practical approaches to comforting users with relational agents

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2291-2296

  Bickmore, Timothy ^a   Schulman, Daniel ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Caring; Comforting; Embodied conversational agent; Empathy; Relational agent; Social interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FEEDBACK; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; RELATIONAL AGENTS; SOCIAL INTERFACES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 35348899538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1240996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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