Too close for comfort?: Adapting to the user's cultural background

Proceedings of the ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 85-94

  Rehm, Matthias ^a   Bee, Nikolaus ^a   Endrass, Birgit ^a   Wissner, Michael ^a   André, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian network modeling; Cultural computing; Embodied conversational agents

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES;

CULTURAL COMPUTING; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 37849042554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1290128.1290142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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