Individualized gesturing outperforms average gesturing - Evaluating gesture production in virtual humans

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

Volumn 6356 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 104-117

  Bergmann, Kirsten ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^a   Eyssel, Friederike ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Gesture Generation; Inter subjective Differences

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION QUALITY; EVALUATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GESTURE GENERATION; INTER-SUBJECTIVE DIFFERENCES; LIKEABILITY; OBJECT DESCRIPTION; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PRODUCTION MODELS; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL HUMANS; PRODUCTION MODELING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 78049404118     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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