Creating rapport with virtual agents

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

Volumn 4722 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 125-138

  Gratch, Jonathan ^a   Ning, Wang ^a   Gerten, Julian ^a   Fast, Edward ^a   Duffy, Robin ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Rapport; Virtual agents

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

EVALUATION; HUMAN LISTENERS; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; RAPPORT; RECENT RESEARCHES; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 37249011932     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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