A conversational agent to help navigation and collaboration in virtual worlds

Virtual Reality

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-82

  Bersot, O ^a   El Guedj, R O ^b   Godereaux C ^c   Nugues, P ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b GESTINFOR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Conversational agents; Planning; Semantics of space; Simulation; Spoken navigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649083340     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01409799     Document Type: Article

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