Emotionally expressive avatars for chatting, learning and therapeutic intervention

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 275-285

  Fabri, Marc ^a   Elzouki, Salima Y Awad ^a   Moore, David ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Avatar; Education; Emotion; Empathy; Facial expression; Instant messaging; Therapeutic intervention; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; MESSAGE PASSING; ONLINE CONFERENCING; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FACIAL EXPRESSION; INSTANT MESSAGING; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149052358     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73110-8_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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