Towards a narrative mind: The creation of coherent life stories for believable virtual agents

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

Volumn 5208 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-72

  Ho, Wan Ching ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELIEVABLE AGENTS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; EPISODIC MEMORIES; HUMAN LIFE; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY STRUCTURES; NARRATIVE STRUCTURES; USER STUDIES; VIRTUAL AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 52149107378     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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