To beat or not to beat: Beat gestures in direction giving

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

Volumn 5934 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 195-206

  Theune, Mariët ^a   Brandhorst, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beats; Direction giving; Gesture analysis; Gesture and speech

Indexed keywords

BEATS; DIRECTION GIVING; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; GESTURE ANALYSIS; GESTURE AND SPEECH; PHYSICAL FEATURES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78650334295     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12553-9_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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