Authorable virtual peers for children with autism

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1677-1680

  Tartaro, Andrea ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Autism; Collaborative virtual peers; Embodied conversational agents; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; SOCIAL ASPECTS; USER INTERFACES;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTISMS; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL PEERS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348924982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1240881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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