Modeling culturally authentic style shifting with virtual peers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 135-142

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

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN ENGLISH; ANALYSIS AND MODELING; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; IN-LINE; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTEXT;

GESTURE RECOGNITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 74049159408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1647314.1647338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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