Supporting narrative understanding of children with autism: A story interface with autonomous autobiographic agents

2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 905-911

  Wan, Ching Ho ^a   Davis, Megan ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHIC AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENT AGENTS; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COGNITIVE AGENT ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING; EVALUATION STUDY; NARRATIVE STRUCTURES; OVERALL DESIGN; SOFTWARE INTERFACES; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EDUCATION;

EID: 70449382052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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