Maintaining engagement in long-term interventions with relational agents

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 648-666

  Bickmore, Timothy ^a   Schulman, Daniel ^a   Yin, Langxuan ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; USER INTERFACES;

AGENT BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; HUMAN AGENT; LONG-TERM INTERACTION; RELATIONAL AGENTS; USER ENGAGEMENT; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 77954430961     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839514.2010.492259     Document Type: Article

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