Can virtual human build rapport and promote learning

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 737-739

  Wang, Ning ^a   Gratch, Jonathan ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Immediacy; Pedagogical agent; Rapport; Virtual human

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COGNITIVE LEARNING; IMMEDIACY; NONVERBAL IMMEDIACIES; PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS; RAPPORT; SELF EFFICACY; TEACHERS'; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

TEACHING;

EID: 73149084198     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-028-5-737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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