Development of a virtual agent based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Milne, Marissa ^a   Luerssen, Martin H ^a   Lewis, Trent W ^a   Leibbrandt, Richard E ^a   Powers, David M W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; SURVEYS; TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGENT BASED; AGENT PLATFORM; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; POST TEST; SOCIAL SKILLS; SPECTRA'S; VIRTUAL AGENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 79959448502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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