Quality of talking heads in different interaction and media contexts

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 481-492

  Weiss, Benjamin ^a   Kühnel, Christine ^a   Wechsung, Ina ^a   Fagel, Sascha ^a   Möller, Sebastian ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied conversational agent; Smart home; Talking head; Usability; WOZ

Indexed keywords

AUDIO AND VIDEO; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; GENDER EFFECTS; INTERACTIVITY; NON-INTERACTIVE; OVERALL QUALITY; PERCEIVED QUALITY; REDUNDANT INFORMATIONS; SMART HOMES; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TALKING HEADS; USER PERCEPTIONS; VISUAL OUTPUTS;

EXPERIMENTS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951123140     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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