Why Emotions should be Integrated into Conversational Agents

Conversational Informatics: An Engineering Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-67

  Becker, Christian ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^a   Wachsmuth, Ipke ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence (AI); Coherent emotional behavior; Domain specific advice; Emotion and personality concepts; Experimental theoretical motive; Expressive response tendency; General Problem Solver (GPS); Interpersonal relationship multi dimensional model; Resource constrained competitive environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149083553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470512470.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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