Health document explanation by 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 183-196

  Bickmore, Timothy W ^a   Pfeifer, Laura M ^a   Paasche Orlow, Michael K ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied conversational agent; Hand gesture; Health literacy; Relational agent; Virtual agent

Indexed keywords

HEALTH;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; HAND GESTURE; HEALTH LITERACY; RELATIONAL AGENTS; VIRTUAL AGENT;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 37249063190     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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