Using Language Tests and emotional expressions to determine the learnability of artificial languages

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4075-4080

  Mubin, Omar ^a   Krahmer, Emiel ^b   Shahid, Suleman ^b   Swerts, Marc ^b   Bartneck, Christoph ^a   Feijs, Loe ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial languages; Emotions; Human robot interaction; Language learnability; Speech interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGES; EMOTIONS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; LANGUAGE LEARNABILITY; SPEECH INTERACTION;

ABSTRACTING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; ROBOTS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; USER INTERFACES;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 70349182113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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