ICat, the chess player: The influence of embodiment in the enjoyment of a game

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1229-1232

  Pereira, André ^a   Martinho, Carlos ^a   Leite, Iolanda ^a   Paiva, Ana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Chess; Embodiment; Synthetic characters; User enjoyment

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

CHESS; EMBODIED AGENT; EMBODIED ROBOTICS; EMBODIMENT; ROBOTIC AGENTS; SYNTHETIC CHARACTER; USER ENJOYMENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 72849111246     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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