Elderly users in ambient intelligence: Does an avatar improve the interaction?

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

Volumn 4397 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 99-114

  Ortiz, Amalia ^a   Del Puy Carretero, María ^a   Oyarzun, David ^a   Yanguas, Jose Javier ^b   Buiza, Cristina ^b   Gonzalez, M Feli ^b   Etxeberria, Igone ^b  

^a VICOMTECH   (Spain)

^b INGEMA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; USER INTERFACES;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; RECOGNIZING EMOTIONS; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 38349078517     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71025-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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