Patterns of synchronization of non-verbal cues and speech in ECAs: Towards a more "natural" conversational agent

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

Volumn 6456 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 96-103

  Rossini, Nicla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embodied Conversational Agents; Expressions; Gesture Speech Synchronization; Non verbal Communication; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; EXPRESSIONS; GESTURE-SPEECH; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; PROSODY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNCHRONIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79952016810     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18184-9_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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