The effects of an embodied conversational agent's nonverbal behavior on user's evaluation and behavioral mimicry

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

Volumn 4722 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 238-251

  Krämer, Nicole C ^a   Simons, Nina ^b   Kopp, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Mimicry; Nonverbal behavior; Social effects of ECAs

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; EVALUATION; MIMICRY; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; POSITIVE EXPERIENCES; SOCIAL EFFECTS OF ECAS; USERS' EXPERIENCES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 37249076016     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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