Generating culture-specific gestures for virtual agent dialogs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6356 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 329-335

  Endrass, Birgit ^a   Damian, Ionut ^a   Huber, Peter ^a   Rehm, Matthias ^b   André, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Culture; Dialog; Gesture Generation; Virtual Agents

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL MODEL; CULTURE; DIALOG; GERMANY; GESTURE GENERATION; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIRTUAL AGENT; SPEECH ACTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; CELL CULTURE; LINGUISTICS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 78049367405     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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