Ethnic identity and engagement in embodied conversational agents

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

Volumn 4722 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 57-63

  Iacobelli, Francisco ^a   Cassell, Justine ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Embodied conversational agents; Ethnicity; Virtual peers

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SPEECH;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; ETHNICITY; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; SURFACE ATTRIBUTES; VIRTUAL PEERS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 37249081631     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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