Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones?

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

Volumn 4552 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages 286-297

  Gratch, Jonathan ^a   Wang, Ning ^b   Okhmatovskaia, Anna ^c   Lamothe, Francois ^c   Morales, Mathieu ^d   Van Der Werf, R J ^e   Morency, Louis Philippe ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Ecole Spéciale Militaire de St Cyr

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; FACE RECOGNITION; FEEDBACK; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

HUMAN AUDIENCE; SOCIO-EMOTIONAL PROCESSES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 37249073514     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73110-8_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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