Modeling embodied feedback with virtual humans

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

Volumn 4930 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 18-37

  Kopp, Stefan ^a   Allwood, Jens ^b   Grammer, Karl ^c   Ahlsen, Elisabeth ^b   Stocksmeier, Thorsten ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Embodied Conversational Agent; Feedback; Virtual Humans

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MODAL ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; INTEGRATED PERCEPTION; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 41349088274     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79037-2_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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