Media equation revisited: Do users show polite reactions towards an embodied agent?

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

Volumn 5773 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 159-165

  Hoffmann, Laura ^a   Krämer, Nicole C ^a   Lam Chi, Anh ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation study; Media equation; Politeness; Social effects

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER LITERACY; EMBODIED AGENT; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; EVALUATION STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MEDIA EQUATION; POLITENESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EFFECTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 70350428116     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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