Efficacy of active participation in conversation with a virtual patient with Alzheimer's disease

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-09-07, Issue , 2009, Pages 15-19

  Green, Nancy L ^a   Bevan, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONDITIONS; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; HIGH FIDELITY; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; PILOT STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPOKEN CONVERSATION; VIRTUAL PATIENTS;

SPEECH;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 77954237531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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