Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 350, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schulman, Daniel ^a   Bickmore, Timothy ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversational agent; Health behavior; Persuasion; Relational agent

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AGENTS; CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PERSUASION; POSITIVE ATTITUDE; RELATIONAL AGENT; SOCIAL DIALOGUE;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70049083472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1541948.1541983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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