Evaluating the effect of gesture and language on personality perception in conversational agents

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

Volumn 6356 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 222-235

  Neff, Michael ^a   Wang, Yingying ^a   Abbott, Rob ^b   Walker, Marilyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

conversational and non verbal behavior; evaluation; gesture; personality

Indexed keywords

BIG FIVE; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; CONVERSATIONAL AND NON-VERBAL BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION; GESTURE; LANGUAGE GENERATION; MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE; MULTI-MODAL; PERSONALITY; VIRTUAL AGENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SPEECH; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 78049423130     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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