An empirical study of the effect of agent competence on user performance and perception

Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 178-185

  Xiao, Jun ^a   Stasko, John ^a   Catrambone, Richard ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied conversational agents; Empirical evaluation; Interface agents; Qualitative study; Wizard of Oz technique

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERFACE AGENTS; MICROSOFT (CO); SYNTHESIZED VOICE;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 4544302018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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