Understanding RUTH: Creating believable behaviors for a virtual human under uncertainty

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

Volumn 4561 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 443-452

  Oh, Insuk ^a   Stone, Matthew ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied conversational agent; RUTH; Talking head; Uncertainty expression; Uncertainty recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; TALKING HEAD; UNCERTAINTY EXPRESSION; UNCERTAINTY RECOGNITION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 38149008040     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73321-8_51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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