Backchannel strategies for artificial listeners

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

Volumn 6356 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 146-158

  Poppe, Ronald ^a   Truong, Khiet P ^a   Reidsma, Dennis ^a   Heylen, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK CHANNELS; FACE-TO-FACE CONVERSATION; HUMAN LISTENERS; MULTI-MODAL; RULE-BASED STRATEGY; USER PERCEPTIONS; VIDEO FRAGMENTS; HUMAN LIKE;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 78049369736     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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