Teaming up humans with autonomous synthetic characters

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-103

  Prada, Rui ^a   Paiva, Ana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous synthetic characters; Believability; Computer human interaction; Group dynamics; Social intelligence; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTONOMOUS SYNTHETIC CHARACTERS; BELIEVABILITY; COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION; GROUP DYNAMICS; SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE; TEAMWORK;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 56249095119     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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