Towards adapting fantasy, curiosity and challenge in multimodal dialogue systems for preschoolers

ICMI-MLMI'09 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 39-46

  Kannetis, Theofanis ^a   Potamianos, Alexandros ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dialogue; Evaluation; Multimodal; Preschoolers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; DIALOGUE EVALUATION; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES; MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE; MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER CRIME; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 74049140781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1647314.1647324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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