More Than Just a Friendly Phrase: Multimodal Aspects of Polite Behavior in Agents

Conversational Informatics: An Engineering Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 69-84

  Rehm, Matthias ^a   André, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based systems design; Autonomy oriented and approval oriented; Distance and power constant social variables; Face threatening act (FTA); Human human conversational behavior observation; Multimodal Politeness Behavior Evaluation; Politeness nonverbal communicative behaviors; Positive politeness strategy; Seven item rating scale; Verbal nonverbal synchronization constraints

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149085667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470512470.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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