An exploration of user engagement in HCI

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affective-Aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots, AFFINE '09, held during the ICMI-MLMI'09 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Peters, Christopher ^a   Castellano, Ginevra ^b   De Freitas, Sara ^c  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Serious Games Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human machine interaction; Non verbal behavior

Indexed keywords

HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; USER ENGAGEMENT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 74049144103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1655260.1655269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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