Whole body interaction for child-centered multimodal language learning

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gonzalez, Berto ^a   Borland, John ^a   Geraghty, Kathleen ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis and modeling of verbal and nonverbal interaction; Culture; Embodied conversational agent

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND MODELING; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LEARNING ACTIVITY; MULTI-MODAL; VIRTUAL AGENT; WHOLE BODY;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 74049107315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1640377.1640381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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