Predicting user psychological characteristics from interactions with empathetic virtual agents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5773 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 330-336

  Robison, Jennifer ^a   Rowe, Jonathan ^a   McQuiggan, Scott ^b   Lester, James ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective interaction; Agents in narrative; Evaluation of virtual agents; User modeling and adaptive agents

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE INTERACTION; EVALUATION OF VIRTUAL AGENTS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; USER MODELING AND ADAPTIVE AGENTS; USER MODELS; VIRTUAL AGENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 70350375711     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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