Learning backchannel prediction model from parasocial consensus sampling: A subjective evaluation

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

Volumn 6356 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 159-172

  Huang, Lixing ^a   Morency, Louis Philippe ^a   Gratch, Jonathan ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Backchannel Prediction; Parasocial Interaction; Virtual Human

Indexed keywords

BACK CHANNELS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; NONVERBAL FEEDBACK; PARASOCIAL INTERACTION; PREDICTION MODEL; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RULE BASED; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VIRTUAL HUMANS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING;

FORECASTING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 78049449658     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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